Yet Another Study Of The Fraser River Sockeye

By Ben Meisner

The salmon of the Fraser River will get yet another hearing when Justice Cohen begins a series of hearings next week into the demise of the sockeye salmon on the Fraser.

It will basically be a rewind of what the Feds have been told time and time again about the plight of the salmon which stand to suffer the same fate as the East Coast Cod. It is a travesty to even make that suggestion but it is in fact the truth.

The runs along the Fraser have continued to decline to a point where at least some are not likely to ever recover.

The Stewarts and other Nechako runs have been nearly wiped out as we have stood by without as much as a whimper about their future.

Unless the Federal government is prepared to accept the findings and recommendations of those who will appear at the hearings, it is again doomed to failure.

Many of the same issues were raised during the Kemano hearings but politics entered the mix and politics won out over the salmon.

The problems  and the recovery  of the Fraser River salmon fishery does not require a Rhodes scholar, just some plain common sense , if that doesn’t come forth from these hearings the Sockeye salmon will be a thing of the past on the Fraser River.

I’m Meisner and that’s one man’s opinion.

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