Fish CPR: Catch, Photo, Release
With new Fraser River Chinook conservation measures in effect this year, there are a lot more posts about anglers catching and releasing Chinook. Heres how to do it.
Safety First With AIS
When an AIS receiver is integrated into your marine electronics system, other vessels equipped with an AIS transmitter are shown on your multifunction display as isosceles triangles. AIS targets are viewable on chart pages and radar screens.
Salmon Enhancement & Stewardship Programs in the Comox Valley
Organizations in the Comox Valley and surrounding areas that are making great strides in efforts to protect and enhance our salmon stocks. Here's how to get involved.
DFO Announces Chinook Fishery Shutdown
As of today, April 16, 2019 an announcement was made for non-retention of Chinook. While how this decision will affect the BC economy overall, there has been tremendous concern on how a decision like this would affect local economies and businesses that depend on tourism—namely “recreational” sports fishing.
Concerns Over Looming DFO Decision for Chinook Fishing Closure
The recreational fishing industry in serious turmoil as they wonder if they will be operating their businesses or not this summer.
Chinook Options Op-Ed
The difference in Exploitation Rate (ER) of Fraser Chinook based on DFO Science modelling determined there is only a 0.8% increased ER.
Enigmatic Winter-Run Steelhead
In my opinion, winter-run steelhead are simply the toughest fly-fishing challenge on coastal streams—period. If there is any form of fly fishing that requires anglers to pay their dues by putting in countless long hours and many days before being graced with a hook-up from their quarry, winter-run steelhead fly-fishing is it.
Vancouver Island Salmon Enhancement & Habitat Restoration
Vancouver Island is home to approximately 37 hatcheries, seven of which are major federally operated facilities. In addition, there are also 45 First Nations and non-profit community-based groups working toward one common goal: helping to enhance salmon stocks as well as to protect, maintain, and restore their natural habitat. In 2018...
Winter Chinook Fishing: The Essentials
One of the great features of salmon fishing on the BC coast is that anglers fish for them 365 days a year, subject to local time and area restrictions. Of course, this opportunity only applies to Chinook salmon, as the other species are either still way out in the open ocean or too small to be legal quarry outside the traditional summer season. Thanks to the multi-year coastal rearing life history of many Chinook stocks, productive fishing for them can be had right through the winter months.
The Seal Debate: To Cull Or Not To Cull?
In recent days we have been seeing calls in the ...
