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2007 Management Plan Will Harm Steelhead & Salmon
The 2007 Integrated Fisheries Management Plan (IFMP) is about to be put into final draft. Unfortunately DFO management have not taken our concerns over this years plan seriously.
The 2007 IFMP allows a return to the retention and targeting of Skeena Coho salmon. This means that they are no longer a stock of concern. As a result DFO will allow a further relaxation of its “selective” fishing measures and restrictions of fishing during the heart of the steelhead migration (August). Furthermore, there is a proposed pink salmon fishery for the mouth of the Skeena which will also occur during the peak of steelhead migration. Non-enhanced sockeye, chinook, coho, chum and pink salmon will also suffer under this plan.
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Please read this plan
North Coast IFMP 2007 public draft.doc
and send your comments to Siegi Kriegl kriegls@pac.dfo.mpo.gc.ca
For more information read our comments we sent to DFO management and others