Submitter: BRUCE PROBERT

Community: aldergrove

Date Submitted: April 12, 2023

Summary:

DFO has promoted the misconception that overfishing is the cause of the decline of salmon stocks in order to deflect criticism from its inept management of the fishery.

Submission:

OVERFISHING Is the reason salmon stocks are in their current state!





Commercial Salmon fishermen are making a fortune.



As many submissions state;



Yet not paying anything for access to a public resource.



THis misconception has been constantly used as a foil to deflect any focus on dfo STAFF and the totally inept ‘ MANAGEMENT ‘ , by their definitition of ‘ SCIENCE’, for more than two decades!



Review dfo media releases between 1988 and 2009 and you will find we are blamed by dfo AS the cause of this never-ending crisis!