Countdown to herring collapse

#SayNOtoROE
Herring biomass has fallen from 130,000 tons to an estimated 56,000 tons in the last four years in the Strait of Georgia.
Despite public outrage and internal scientific recommendations urging a reduction of the allowable quota, Fisheries and Oceans Canada continues to mismanage this essential and fragile backbone of our coastal inland sea.
Conservancy Hornby Island members describe the arrival of the first commercial fishing vessels of the season, and express concern at DFO's mismanagement and lack of leadership at a time where herring, a critically important species continues toward the brink of collapse.
Thank you to our colleagues and friends at
SeaLegacy, ecologyst, Association for Denman Island Marine Stewards and Pacific Wild for coming together in defence of herring.
Take action Now and join over 120,000 people who care about the Salish Sea:
Bit.ly/sayNOtoROE
And Make your voice heard in Parliament by signing e-petition 2342:
petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Pe...
#BIGlittlefish #sayNOtoROE #herringstories
Special thanks to Jérémy Mathieu - Photographie et Film for videography.

[@shanechostetler9997]

Maybe they all migrated to Sitka, where there was record biomass of Herring the past few years. Get rid of the Sea Lions and that would make an impact on how quickly the herring will recover.

[@johndukelow5966]

Thank god good guys

[@Glaciershark]

You don't think the qouta is set properly or you want no fishing at all?

[@wildandliving1925]

File a lawsuit

[@andrewsadler7642]

You have these environmentalists everywhere you go I'm on the East Coast there's more shrimp scallops fish and crabs than ever these same people spew the same garbage everywhere .

[@eriks9576]

yea sounds like some propaganda, remember people if a fisherman catches and kills all of the fish, how is he going to keep fishing? Sustainability is what they want, not to decimate a species....

[@jamieerickson88]

So wrong in your #s are so wrong this was the biggest even in more then 25 yrs in the gulf, Salish sea, Ask to see the pictures of spawn , will you not show your Facebook friends, obviously you want to just lie , above you was the biggest spawn in knights inlet in sooo many year ask the namgis what they seen? How many houses do each of you own on little Hornsby island

[@shanechostetler9997]

We have to remember, there’s big money in this environmentalist vomit!

[@reidwatson8648]

Shut uppppp

[@sgtcrab2569]

Simple solution. Stop seining...fish only gillnets...no small fish caught and no big fish caught.

[@mtnfuninfo4134]

Lies, lies, and more lies. You have no clue on what's really happening.

[@andrewsadler7642]

Land Lubbers know nothing about fishing .Lets go Fishing boys .

[@sammyvh11]

Eat domesticated animals