MAINE - Life in the Slow Lane
Thanks Bill - Good News for the River. You can still have fun even if you don't kill the fish.
Lee
Thanks Bill , I hope the new regulation helps out the future of your Atlantic Salmon. I still say until they get rid of the commercial fishing along with changing the law on Native Indian harvest . The Atlantic Salmon are doomed . Dave V
Quote by: Dave VThanks Bill , I hope the new regulation helps out the future of your Atlantic Salmon. I still say until they get rid of the commercial fishing along with changing the law on Native Indian harvest . The Atlantic Salmon are doomed . Dave V
I agree Dave!!
Guys, the numbers are up on the NW Miramichi for this year so far here's the link Trap counts of Salmon and Grilse Just make sure that you change the date to 31 July and check whether you want to see the numbers for grilse or salmon. I have heard that the main stem of the NW Miramichi has gone back to normal regs, however the Crown Reserve stretches will remain C+R for the season. The letter that I received as a party leader indicated that there is no grilse retention for the entire season for all crown reserves on the NW Miramichi. So anyway the strength of this years run is good to see. The Saint John/Nashwaak river numbers are way up as well which is good to see. Salmon fishing has been closed for about 15 years on those rivers, it'd be nice to see it come back but since it flows into the Bay of Fundy I'm not going to get too over optimistic yet. If we had say five years of strong returns on the Saint John system then I'd say we had some sort of recovery under way. Salmon runs tend to fluctuate quite a bit from year to year. Bill G.
Thanks for the update Bill
I changed the link so it will open in a new window. Hope you don't mind.
Lee
Bill is good to hear that there is some recovery but like you said it varies from year to year. Until they stop commercial fishing its going to be a long road to recovery.
Quote by: Dave VBill is good to hear that there is some recovery but like you said it varies from year to year. Until they stop commercial fishing its going to be a long road to recovery.
Dave
I believe they don't fish commercially for Atlantic Salmon, it is the Natives that are using the gil nets. Time will tell if this is going to work or not. The real problem is that the natives don't understand that if they clobber the fish stocks they will not have fish to net. So it would seem to me that a little education would help. Just my two cents.
Lee
Lee dealing with the Natives here , they could care less about the fish . I am hoping thats not the case with the natives there .
Quote by: Dave VLee dealing with the Natives here , they could care less about the fish . I am hoping thats not the case with the natives there .
Thats exactly the case here David they don't give a flying fugg about the fish and just kill them cause they can.....Newfoundland had the right idea what to do with natives IMO
Guys, the big news here in NB is the low numbers of salmon on the Northwest Miramichi for the last few years. DFO has announced mandatory hook and release for that river to include the Little Southwest and Sevogle. Here is the link to the CBC story
Northwest Miramichi Watershed Mandatory C&R
Bill G.