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KenoHillYTon Sep 28, 2024 7:56pm
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The SALMON issue is NOT only a Yukon issue
The SALMON issue is NOT only a Yukon issueAND certainly not the Yukons fault.
People need to STOP eating them. LOL FN is now importing canned Salmon at $300.00.
The salmon need international assistance and protection, more than YTG can bring to bear. Haggart Creek and Dubin Gulch not the mother of all salmon spawning..
"The number of chinook salmon crossing the international border into Canadian waters has for years plummeted, with the last two years yielding some of the worst tallies recorded on the Yukon River. Last year, about 15,000 of the fish made it to Eagle, Alaska, near the Yukon border. It was even worse in 2022. A minimum of 42,500 chinook are supposed to get to their Canadian spawning waters to meet conservation goals."
"Steve Gotch, a senior director with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, said the fishing suspension is a big one because as much as 95 per cent of the migrating chinook are caught by commercial fisheries on the river in both Alaska and Canada, or in the river's estuary. The rest are caught in the ocean.
"There just aren't enough fish to really accommodate any harvest and we need every one of those chinook salmon to reach the spawning ground to help rebuild this population into the future," he said." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-chinook-salmon-agreement-canada-alaska-1.7162510