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PostPosted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 10:04 am
 


Title: Unexpected sockeye surge delights B.C. salmon lovers
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Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2010-08-30 00:04:53
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 10:04 am
 


yummy yummy, still cant compare to Atlantic salmon though.

So much fish the price is dropping like a stone,
its under a buck a pound now.

The fishing should open for 2 more days this week.


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 10:11 am
 


It's a calamity I tell you. There are too many fish so they will compete with each other for spawning sites and thus we'll have a bad harvest next year. Must kill many fish to save the fish.

I think so much fish is being caught, much of it is rotting. The infrastructure is just not up to handling a haul of this size. Not enough ice, not enough processing capability. Probably time to air dry it the way the Indians do.


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 8:13 pm
 


Sorry andy, the fish spawning this year won't be coming back to spawn themselves for something like 4-7 years. Sockeye require a lake nearby to rear in. Once hatched, juvenile sockeye stay in their natal habitat for up to three years. They then journey out to sea, where they grow rapidly feeding mainly on zooplankton. They stay in the ocean for one to four years before returning to their native streams.


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:36 pm
 


$1:
yummy yummy, still cant compare to Atlantic salmon though.


No it can't thank God. That stuff's for Capt. Highliner fishsticks.....


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:43 pm
 


herbie, if you're talking about the Atlantic salmon you're buying in BC you have to remember it's all farmed fish, fed nothing but pellets and what other crap they may add. Wild salmon, or wild fish of any kind have a far better taste and texture than they will ever manage to produce in fish farms. But, I will say there ain't much going to beat a fresh caught Sockeye cooked over an open fire on the beach.


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:54 pm
 


Hyack Hyack:
herbie, if you're talking about the Atlantic salmon you're buying in BC you have to remember it's all farmed fish, fed nothing but pellets and what other crap they may add. Wild salmon, or wild fish of any kind have a far better taste and texture than they will ever manage to produce in fish farms. But, I will say there ain't much going to beat a fresh caught Sockeye cooked over an open fire on the beach.



What he said!! [B-o]


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:19 am
 


I believe Herbie has been rebutted :lol:


I was referring to the wild Atlantic salmon you could get when I was younger.


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:24 am
 


martin14 martin14:
I believe Herbie has been rebutted :lol:


I was referring to the wild Atlantic salmon you could get when I was younger.

I can still get some... I have people. :D


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:25 am
 


Hyack Hyack:
Sorry andy, the fish spawning this year won't be coming back to spawn themselves for something like 4-7 years. Sockeye require a lake nearby to rear in. Once hatched, juvenile sockeye stay in their natal habitat for up to three years. They then journey out to sea, where they grow rapidly feeding mainly on zooplankton. They stay in the ocean for one to four years before returning to their native streams.


Yes, you're right, the spawning cycle of salmon is longer than one year. So redact my post to read - 4 - 7 years. The fishermen are still making the argument that DFO was way too conservative and allowed too many fish to escape, thus reducing future catches. I don't know the merit of that, since salmon did just fine before the white man came along. But then they would have had cyclical populations too, and maybe competition for spawning grounds is one reason. Certainly not the only one, since between last year's very poor run, and the bounty of this year, scientists have had to admit there is a lot they still don't know what happens with the salmon out in the ocean.

After last year, people were saying the salmon fishery was doomed. After this year, I'm sure they'll all be gung ho about it again. We have very short memories.


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