Is this fish really disappearing from the Georgia Strait?

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Is this fish really disappearing from the Georgia Strait? – The Narwhal

by ahnationtalk on March 12, 202558 Views

First Nations say herring are disappearing. Fisheries and Oceans Canada says they’re stable. So what’s really going on?

WSÁNEĆ Hereditary Chiefs and conservation groups have been raising the alarm about herring in the Georgia Strait. Last November, the chiefs called for a moratorium on commercial harvest in the area, reporting community members are not seeing herring spawn as they used to, and they fear the population will collapse. The Georgia Strait is the last commercial herring fishery not under a moratorium in the province.

But Fisheries and Oceans Canada did not implement a moratorium, and instead went ahead in increasing the allowable harvest, from 10 per cent of the estimated total biomass in 2024 to 14 per cent this year. The federal department, also known as DFO, maintained herring in the Strait are healthy in a statement provided to The Narwhal. Commercial fisheries maintain the herring are simply moving, and are not in decline.