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We are fighting to protect your right to fish in freshwater and saltwater both today and for future generations. Your access to public fisheries are being threatened by extreme environmental groups, government under funding and mismanagement. Our role is to lobby governments and build relationships to ensure we have access to public fisheries in BC.
Public Fishery Alliance Blog
2M ago
Executive Summary UBC, with the assistance of the marine sport fishing sector and supported by the B.C Salmon Restoration and Innovation Fund and Pacific Salmon Foundation (PSF) conducted a unique five year research project on B.C.’s west coast that provided initial insights on how this sector is helping in salmon recovery. A total of 1046 ... Read More»
The post For Immediate Release: UBC Study Shows Marine Sport Fishery On Leading Edge Of Salmon Recovery appeared first on Public Fishery Alliance ..read more
Public Fishery Alliance Blog
8M ago
On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko
The end of open-net fish farms in B.C. is near, sort of
Guest host Belle Puri speaks with Sonia Strobel, co-founder and CEO of Skipper Otto Community Supported Fishery, and Dave Brown, an advocate with the Public Fisheries Alliance, about what concerns are top of mind for them after Ottawa announced its five-year plan to transition away from controversial open-net fish farms. This interview shows a continued concern about the management of our fisheries from public fishers and commercial fishers. It’s well worth taking the time to listen to these concerns ..read more
Public Fishery Alliance Blog
8M ago
June 7, 2024
Attn: Dave Obee, Editor
Times Colonist
201-655 Tyee Road
Victoria, B.C. V9A 6X5
Sent Via email: letters@timescolonist.com
RE: Re: Times Colonist E-Edition “Do this to save killer whales and wild salmon from extinction”
The Public Fishery Alliance (PFA) is a non-profit recreational angling organization with membership drawn from across the spectrum of BC tidal and freshwater salmon fisheries. Our role is to advocate for salmon, and for sustainable recreational salmon fisheries.
The recent commentary by Adrian Tuohy, a biologist with the Puget Sound ..read more
Public Fishery Alliance Blog
1y ago
Here’s How
On February 27th the South Vancouver Island Anglers Coalition, the Public Fishery Alliance, the Fraser River Sport fishing Alliance and the BC Recreational Fishing Association sponsored a public meeting that drew 300 participants from across the angling spectrum & the general S. Vancouver Island community.
The meeting was called to discuss the future of a world class recreational fishery that spans the waters place from Port Renfrew north to Campbell River.
There was particular attention paid to the regions that have been severely damaged by the double impact of fishing measure ..read more
Public Fishery Alliance Blog
1y ago
Your Salmon Fisheries Are In Peril!
For 2024 DFO are proposing even more restrictions on south coast anglers to protect Southern Resident Killer Whales (SRKW), even though SRKW’s are rarely in the existing closures for more than a few days each month. These new restrictions are particularly hard on Port Renfrew, where the fishery is already in survival mode under the existing regulations.
DFO’s approach to whale recovery looks more like ‘whack a mole’ management which repeatedly occur on an annual basis in a random manner that lacks scientific integrity. If left unchallenged, the DFO th ..read more
Public Fishery Alliance Blog
1y ago
Years of excuses and inaction on Marked Selective Fishery (MSF) proves Fisheries Minister Murray has little regard for British Columbia’s salmon anglers. In a shocking new revelation, the PFA has learned that Pacific Region DFO approved MSF proposals for Chinook, slated to open on April 1st 2023, have only just reached the minister’s desk. Two weeks beyond the proposed opening date and still no decision! Yet Murray has time for schmoosing in Norway, Iceland and on the East Coast instead.
Is this caused by a dysfunctional senior DFO or perhaps it’s intentional?
Fact: Wit ..read more
Public Fishery Alliance Blog
2y ago
To: The Honourable Joyce Murray
Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
Dear Minister Murray,
The Public Fishery Alliance (PFA) represents marine and freshwater anglers and the businesses that rely on the public fishery in British Columbia. Our primary interest is the maintenance of well–managed, sustainable public salmon fisheries that contribute to the economic well-being of BC, and the preservation, conservation and restoration of salmon and their habitats. We are a BC registered not-for-profit society and totally self-funded.
To this e ..read more
Public Fishery Alliance Blog
2y ago
VANCOUVER-VICTORIA-SIDNEY-SOOKE-PORT RENFREW Potential Southern Resident Killer Whale Management Actions – 2023
FILL OUT THIS SURVEY – DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 19th/2023
https://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/consultation/fm-gp/srkw-eprs/2023-srkw-survey-sondage-ers-eng.html
The Public Fisheries Alliance does not support increasing area based salmon restrictions and closures. We support adaptive management , like bubble zones, that consistently give Southern Resident Killer Whales the room they need.Please support salmon and SRKWs by pushing this government towards watershed restoration, marked selective f ..read more
Public Fishery Alliance Blog
2y ago
The Public Fishery Alliance has serious issues with the comments made by David Mills in a post in Watershed Watch, and a subsequent post on the Public Fishery Alliance Facebook page.
Mills cites a Pacific Salmon Commission table that shows 2021 Chinook retained catch, released Chinook and incidental mortalities for Canadian Chinook fisheries across northern BC, the central BC coast, the west coast of Vancouver Island, Johnstone Strait, Georgia and Juan de Fuca Straits. The table includes all fishing sectors but our concern relates only to his interpretation of the recreational fisheries catch ..read more
Public Fishery Alliance Blog
3y ago
The Honourable Joyce Murray,
Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard
Minister’s Office,
200 Kent Street,
Station 15N100
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0E6
Re: Rejection of Chinook Retention Proposals
Dear Minister Murray,
The Public Fishery Alliance (PFA) is a broad–based non-profit society consisting of almost one thousand Canadian anglers, angling organizations, angling dependent businesses and volunteer salmon and habitat restoration groups. Our collective interests are the sustainability of our marine and fresh water fisheries, especially for salmon and steelhead. We advocate for abund ..read more