Author: Terry Glavin
Published- Sep 01, 2007
Report
For several years, conservationists have tried their best to identify the fundamental, structural problems that make the British Columbia salmon fishery “unsustainable.” The conservationist focus has been on habitat protection, and on the need for a shift away from mixed-stock fisheries that tend to pose serious and persistent threats to biological and spatial diversity in salmon populations. The purpose of this paper is to encourage debate in industry, in fisheries management circles, and most importantly, among members of the concerned public, in the hopes of encouraging the West Coast salmon fishery to make that transition.