First decent run in more than 3 years, so instead of taking a conservation approach, the DFO allows the further raping of this dwindling resource.

Here is a thought, allow this run to spawn unfettered. This limited salmon fishery should be maintained for at least 4 years to allow this years and the following spawning to return.

Allowing a sport fishery on a threatened stock is arrogantly STUPID. Even the First Nations fishery should be scaled back.

My thoughts exactly Loki!

It is no wonder we are in the shape that we are in as a human race. We are a bunch of gormless goons. They had a bumper year in Cod a year or two before the death knell of the industry, and it appears that we learned squat from that. Where is our government in all this? This is important!!! You'd think someone would have the foresight to protect this run. Too busy cooking up excuses for the HST.

All I've heard of is how big this run is, not how do we maintain and protect it. Everyone and their dog is out fishing because of all the hype in the news about it. Shameful and disgusting. Let them run for a year or two. First Nations can participate in the conservation too. We all have to have a hand in this. Way to go idiots.

Junco, So we have a bumper crop of Sockeye, Every one of these fish is going to die in 60 days. How do you plan to Maintain and protect it.

You can only protect the small run of sockeyes so that they make the spawning beds.

Loki, the Sockeye is a hard fish to catch with a hook once it is in non tidal waters. The total number of sockeye taken in this sport fishery will pale compared to that taken by the commercial fishermen and the native (net) fisheries.

Spruce City Wildlife has announced that it has to move its hatchery on River Rd, and without a larger membership, it will not have the funds to do so.

So, am I going to join this group, throw in lots of money for salmon enhancement, and watch as all the others (see above)reap my benefits without me ever being allowed to catch one (or even have the opportunity)?

Except that the Spruce City Wildlife hatchery is trout for fresh water lakes.

Any free water fish is hard to catch with a single barb-less hook. Regardless of the difficulty, when one factors in the sheer number of anglers all along their journey to spawning beds, it becomes almost impossible to have a significant breeding stock actually do their jobs of replenishing. Then we have the first nations that are permitted to net in the ocean and in the rivers.

Again, Allowing a sport fishery on a threatened stock is arrogantly STUPID. Even the First Nations fishery should be scaled back.

It takes 3 to 5 years for the fry to return to their spawning beds. So you are suggesting that at the first reprieve of low stocks, we go back to business as usual? Sort of like the finical meltdown: after the governments shored up the industry, they got back to business as usual with little to no actual changes in business conduct. So here we are tat the tail end of weak stocks, and we are again putting pressure on an at risk resource.

By all means buy a salmon tag, it does go to support efforts of sustaining the stocks. Just please leave the fish in the water to spawn.

Loki what do you mean by anglers? Just sport fishermen or everone. I have been through the whole Fraser Canyon by raft and every back water and eddy has native nets in it. It is a wonder how any fish make it up the river.

I say save wild eat farmed.

I mean ALL. Technically angler refers to hook and line. I think the first nations need to step up to this action as well.

I say save wild ban farmed.

Let mother nature sort them out.
Maybe we just need to quit second guessing her?
We have been there and done that...didn't work worth a damn, did it?
So now,are we going to do it again?

I agree, shut it all down for everyone. Heck, I say shut it down for the next 4-6 years for everyone and really give the fish a chance.

Do we really need fresh Sockeye Salmon on the table THAT bad?

Too many fish spawning interfere with the process. Some years they have to take out the excess from the spawning grounds, in order to allow successful reproduction.

But on the other hand, who wants to eat sockeye which has fought rivers and canyons for 500 miles. Yuk!!

They are beat to hell by the time they get up here... the lake fish come into the river and feed on them while they are still alive and swimming up stream... they are bruised... its not an appetizing sight.

I say ban all net fishing on the rivers... both commercial and native fisheries. Its the only real way to ensure sustainable wild salmon stocks.

I agree...ban all net fishing in rivers!

Why isn't something done about the sport netting done in Quesnel?

All people who eat fish should be required to get a $20.00 fish eating license.