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Originally Posted by Ken07AOVette
Stopping netting and fishing of spawning salmon on the rivers would make a hell of a lot bigger difference than killing seals sea lions and orca.
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Close but not quite. Currently seals & sea lions consume around 45 - 50 % of all the chinook and coho that smolt from the Fraser River. HUGE impact. We'll simply take his killer whale comment for what it was worth - as in nada.
On the other hand, around 75 K or so chinook spawners are killed by FN's in the same river each year, with Fishless Ocean's blessing. Translates to one hell of a lot of potential smolts the following year.
But nope, let's curtail everyone one else, and tuck our heads firmly up our backsides instead...
Nog