Legal Challenge to DFO's Herring Fishery Management
Dear Minister Thompson, The attached letter to you is part of a long-standing effort to bring DFO’s mismanagement of the Pacific herring fishery to the Minister’s attention, and to achieve a pause in harvesting in both the winter and spring fisheries, so the dangerously declining herring…
One for ADIMS: Goodbye Shellfish Predator Netting in Estuaries
ADIMS would like to thank Tony Gregson for his excellent article in the September 12th issue of The Barnacle, where he correctly states that: "Under the 2025 iteration of the Conditions of Licence for shellfish tenures in Baynes Sound, DFO (Department of Fisheries and Oceans) requires that…
Suspend the Strait of Georgia Herring Fisheries
Dear the Integrated Herring Harvest Planning Committee (IHHPC), The following comments are submitted jointly by Pacific Wild Alliance, Conservancy Hornby Island, Herring Conservation and Research Society, Saanich Inlet Protection Society, Bowen Island Conservancy, Association for Denman Island…