Al Clark Why do they keep saying "businessman" Moore. WHAT business??? CONsulting??
David Amos
Reply to @Al Clark: Methinks everybody knows he used to own Fundy Fencing N'esy Pas?
Janice Small Cast
should go rogue and release the fish into the river system anyway..What
will DFO do, give you a fine and a slap on the wrist and the way they
monitor the river they won't know anyway..Cast should take it upon
themselves and look after the river...Say nothing just do it, DFO can’t
seem to see the forest for the trees anyway. They did a bang up job with
the Small Month Bass.
David Amos
Reply to @Janice small: Dream on
John Valcourt First
nations are opposed because they weren't consulted with. Not everything
is about them. Since it is catch and release only now for everyone but
the first nations they are actually a part of the problem as they have
no limitations on them.
Brian Robertson
Reply to @John Valcourt:
It's all about the money
David Amos
Reply to @Brian Robertson: YUP
David Amos Methinks something smells fishy N'esy Pas?
David Amos Methinks folks should get their news from Twitter N'esy Pas?
Roy Kirk "Another
option, she said, is to release "not reproductively viable" salmon,
equipped with acoustic tags, at sea to assess movement and mortality.
===
Good science, perhaps, but unlikely to show immediate improvements in
the fishing of the Laird of the Manor. I recall seeing reports of
studies done many years ago that indicated that hatchery-raised fish had
high mortality due to predation, the fish not being exposed to it
during their early years of life and therefore not prepared to evade
predators.
Turn the existing crops into fishmeal, then start over, this time
getting voluntary agreement on the project rather than assuming you can
get it by bullying. David Amos
Reply to @Roy Kirk:
There was no bullying Methinks everybody knows this project was funded
both federally and provincially in 2016 N'esy Pas?
Al Clark Reply
to @Roy Kirk: They should provide the fish with video games and VR to
prepare them for real life with predators. It works good for our newest
crop of cops and those 2 basement dwellers from BC that thought they
were survivalists.
David Amos
Reply to @Al Clark:
Methinks its strange that you are allowed to post such things
particularly in light of the comments of mine that are blocked N'esy
Pas?
Stephen Robertson Did
DFO,among others , not run salmon hatcheries around New Brunswick for
many YEARS? There appears to be more here than meets the eye?
David Amos
Reply to @Stephen Robertson: I wholeheartedly agree Sir
Stephen Robertson Reply to @David Amos: thank you David
Al Clark Reply
to @Stephen Robertson: This is much much different than what the
hatchery did. READ the article! It seems worthwhile to try.
They made the mistake of not convincing the bureaucratic upper canadian geniuses at DFO it was their idea.
The "i*** way" of placing full page ads in their company pr*p*g*nd* rag
is not doing them any favours. There are probably some of their infamous
unsigned editorials in play as well.
David Amos Methinks
folks should ask the obvious why is the government going against a plan
of their buddies in the Irving Clan N'esy Pas?
Ben Haroldson
Reply to @David Amos: And at the same time allowing glyphosate spraying...
David Amos Reply
to @Ben Haroldson: Methinks the Irving Clan and some political people
would understand why I just made a few calls N'esy Pas?
Atlantic Salmon Recovery Program Gains Government Support
Not-for-profit organization to address decline of wild Atlantic salmon
November 05, 2016 -
Miramichi, NB
Collaboration
for Atlantic Salmon Tomorrow Inc. (CAST) will soon be implementing its
program to improve Atlantic salmon stocks in the Miramichi and
Restigouche rivers, thanks to investments of more than $4.7 million from
the federal and provincial governments.
Pat Finnigan, Member of Parliament for Miramichi – Grand Lake, and
the Honourable Bill Fraser, Minister of Transportation and
Infrastructure and Minister responsible for the Northern and Miramichi
Funds, today joined CAST representatives and industry stakeholders to
make the funding announcement.
The funding will help CAST implement the first phase of a
comprehensive Atlantic Salmon Recovery Program, which includes three
innovative research projects. The program’s success could have
widespread benefits, potentially serving as a model to help replenish
stocks in other Atlantic Canadian and eastern North American rivers that
have been gradually declining for 50 years, including regions where the
species has been listed as endangered.
The Government of Canada is providing a non-repayable contribution of
up to $2,457,257 through ACOA’s Business Development Program while the
Province of New Brunswick is investing up to $2,300,000 through the
Miramichi Regional Economic Development and Innovation Fund for the
project.
This important project builds on the Government of Canada’s
commitment to drive economic growth in Atlantic Canada through
innovation as announced in July 2016 as part of the Atlantic Growth
Strategy.
Quotes
“The Atlantic salmon recreational fishery in the Miramichi River is a
multi-million dollar industry that attracts thousands of visitors from
around the world. This investment is an example of the Government of
Canada’s commitment to build on competitive regional advantages by
supporting research to help this economically significant fishery remain
healthy for future generations.”
- Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development and Minister responsible for ACOA
“The
Government of Canada is pleased to support CAST and its innovative
research in an effort to help increase the number of Atlantic salmon
returning to our rivers. The economic benefits of this project will
extend well beyond the immediate fisheries research jobs being created,
as a healthy Atlantic salmon population will help draw an increasing
number of tourists to the entire region.”
- Pat Finnigan, MP for Miramichi-Grand Lake
“Your government understands what matters to New Brunswickers. We
know how important creating jobs, growing the economy, and securing
health care and education are to New Brunswickers and their families. We
are proud to partner in this most important research project as salmon
fishing contributes to our provincial economy by creating jobs,
expenditures on food and beverages, transportation, accommodations,
guiding and other tourism related spending.”
- Honourable
Bill Fraser, Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure and Minister
responsible for the Northern and Miramichi Funds
“We thank ACOA and the Province of New Brunswick for their support of
the CAST research initiative, a science-based team effort to save wild
Atlantic salmon. Today’s funding contributions are vital to preserving
and growing wild Atlantic salmon populations for generations to come.”
- Brian Moore, President, CAST Quick Facts
• CAST is a unique collaboration of industry leaders, conservation
groups and scientists that was created in 2015 to address salmon
conservation in New Brunswick.
• One research project will use remote
sensing technology to better understand global climate change, warming
water conditions and their impact on wild Atlantic salmon.
• Sonar
technology will be used in a second project to more accurately determine
the number of out-migrating juvenile salmon and returning adult salmon
to compare with previous data.
• The Adult Salmon Release Program is a
project that involves converting an existing facility near Miramichi to
rear wild smolts in captivity, in order to provide enough mature adults
to release into rivers with low populations.
• Atlantic salmon is
currently on the endangered species list in the United States, the Bay
of Fundy and the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia.
Atlantic salmon recovery program receives federal and provincial funding
05 November 2016
MIRAMICHI
(GNB) – Collaboration for Atlantic Salmon Tomorrow (CAST) will soon be
implementing its program to improve Atlantic salmon stocks in the
Miramichi and Restigouche rivers, thanks to investments of more than
$4.7 million from the provincial and federal governments.
“Your government understands how important creating jobs, growing the
economy and securing health care and education are to New Brunswickers
and their families,” said Transportation and Infrastructure Minister
Bill Fraser, who is also minister responsible for the Northern and
Miramichi Funds. “We are proud to partner in this most important
research project. Salmon fishing contributes to our provincial economy
by creating jobs through expenditures on food and beverages,
transportation, accommodations, guiding and other tourism-related
spending.”
The funding will help the organization implement the first phase of a
comprehensive Atlantic Salmon Recovery Program, which includes three
research projects.
“The federal government is pleased to support CAST and its innovative
research in an effort to help increase the number of Atlantic salmon
returning to our rivers,” said Miramichi-Grand Lake MP Pat Finnigan.
“The economic benefits of this project will extend well beyond the
immediate fisheries research jobs being created, as a healthy Atlantic
salmon population will help draw an increasing number of tourists to the
entire region.”
Finnigan attended the event for federal Innovation, Science and
Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains, who is also the minister
responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA).
The provincial government is investing up to $2.3 million in the
project through the Miramichi Regional Economic Development and
Innovation Fund. The federal government is providing a non-repayable
contribution of up to $2,457,257 through ACOA’s Business Development
Program.
If successful, the program could have widespread benefits,
potentially serving as a model to help replenish stocks in other
Atlantic Canadian and eastern North American rivers that have been
gradually declining for 50 years, including regions where the species
has been listed as endangered.
“We thank ACOA and the provincial government for their support of the
CAST research initiative, a science-based team effort to save wild
Atlantic salmon,” said Brian Moore, president of Collaboration for
Atlantic Salmon Tomorrow. “Today’s funding contributions are vital to
preserving and growing wild Atlantic salmon populations for generations
to come.”
05-11-16
Atlantic salmon recovery program receives federal and provincial funding
Collaboration
for Atlantic Salmon Tomorrow (CAST) will soon be implementing its
program to improve Atlantic salmon stocks in the Miramichi and
Restigouche rivers, thanks to investments of more than $4.7 million from
the provincial and federal governments. From left: Kent North MLA
Bertrand LeBlanc; Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Bill
Fraser, who is also minister responsible for the Northern and Miramichi
Funds; Miramichi-Grand Lake MP Pat Finnigan; Seniors and Long-Term Care
Minister Lisa Harris; and Brian Moore, president of CAST.
Media Contact(s)
Bruce Macfarlane, communications, Regional Development Corporation, 506-444-4377.
Lisa Gautreau, communications, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, 506-471-1565.
Shirley Roach-Albert, executive director, Collaboration for Atlantic Salmon Tomorrow, 506-651-0362.
Research Efforts to Improve Wild Atlantic Salmon Stocks in New Brunswick Receive Major Funding Boost
November 30, 2016:
Miramichi, NB: The Government of Canada and the Province of New
Brunswick have partnered with the Collaboration for Atlantic Salmon
Tomorrow (CAST) with a combined total of $4.7 million in research
funding.
Read the federal and provincial government news releases
here or
here.
CAST is a unique collaboration of industry leaders, conservation
groups, and scientists that was created in 2015 to address salmon
conservation in New Brunswick. Its focus is to save the wild Atlantic
salmon before it’s too late.
Federal and provincial
representatives and stakeholders attend the funding announcement in
Miramichi, N.B. Saturday. A total of $4.7 million will be used to help
save wild Atlantic salmon in the Miramichi and Restigouche rivers. From
left, MLA Bertrand LeBlanc, Minister Bill Fraser, MP Pat Finnigan, MLA
Lisa Harris and CAST president, Brian Moore.
J.D. Irving, Limited (JDI) is a founding partner and proud
contributor to this multi-year effort to reverse the decline of wild
Atlantic salmon populations.
JDI is supporting one of the six CAST science projects currently
underway: ARIS Sonar Population Tracking - new underwater sonar
technology in Blackville, NB which accurately counts the number of
returning salmon, providing real on-time data about salmon populations
in the Miramichi.
“With everyone working together we will be successful," said Jim
Irving, Co-CEO, J.D. Irving, Limited. “Our objective is to have the
salmon populations return to their former levels of productivity, which
will not only enhance the fishing experience and help the economy of
rural New Brunswick, but most of all provide the right environment for a
healthy salmon population.”
Under
the CAST plan, wild Atlantic salmon were captured as smolts and raised
to adults in a hatchery. The federal government won't let CAST return
the fish to the Miramchi River to spawn, citing concerns they might
weaken the salmon population. (CBC)
For the third year in a row, federal
fisheries officials have denied a New Brunswick company permission to
release thousands of hatchery-raised adult salmon into
the Miramichi River.
Department of Fisheries and Oceans
scientists and a non-profit company called CAST have been at odds since
2017 over the merits of the restocking plan, which got underway with the
capture of several thousand three-year-old salmon smolts that were then
raised to adulthood in large tanks in a hatchery.
CAST, backed
by J.D. Irving Ltd. co-CEO Jim Irving, wants to return the
hatchery-raised fish to the river in the same place they were captured
to allow them to spawn.
But
in a letter to CAST dated Aug. 8 and obtained
by CBC News, Sylvie Lapointe, the assistant deputy fisheries minister,
said the department, while committed to Atlantic salmon conservation,
continues to believe the Miramichi is not the place for this
"experiment."
One
of several full-page CAST ads in daily newspapers, pressuring Canada's
Department of Fisheries and Oceans to approve the controversial adult
stocking program for the Miramichi. (Telegraph Journal Newspaper)
CAST,
which stands for Collaboration for Atlantic Salmon Tomorrow, describes
itself as a partnership devoted to salmon research and recovery. Glenn
Cooke, CEO of Cooke Aquaculture, and Saint John businessman Brian Moore
are directors, along with Irving.
CAST is collaborating with the
Miramichi Salmon Association and has provided funding to the University
of New Brunswick's Canadian Rivers Institute, which is also a key
research partner.
DFO pressured for go-ahead
Lapointe and her staff have been under tremendous political and public pressure to give CAST a green light for its project.
In
the weeks preceding the posting of the letter, DFO and its Moncton and
Ottawa staff, were targeted in a series of full-page, front-section ads
in the Telegraph-Journal and other Irving-owned daily newspapers.
The
ads, placed by CAST, have dismissed staff at Fisheries and Oceans as
"bureaucrats," with no plan to reverse the decline of wild Atlantic
salmon in the Miramichi River system.
They
accuse the federal department and the Atlantic Salmon Association — a
long-established conservation group — of working together to block
CAST's marquee project, known as "smolt to adult supplementation," or
SAS.
Salmon numbers in the river system have declined in recent
years. Returns numbered just 27,000 in 2018, well below conservation
levels.
CAST works with scientists
A recent CAST
newspaper ad claimed the project had assembled the "largest team of
research scientists in Canada to address the decline of Miramichi
salmon."
Both Fisheries and Oceans and the Atlantic Salmon
Federation maintain the population overall is not yet at crisis levels,
and there is no need for potentially very risky interventions.
But it's the science behind the project and a lack of consultation with First Nations that most concern federal officials
Lapointe's
letter cites, among other records, a 2016 DFO report that refers to
"adaptive genetic changes" that can occur rapidly, even within a single
generation, to fish raised in an artificial environment.
"DFO
has a responsibility to consider all the benefits and risks of this type
of work on the wild Atlantic salmon population," Lapointe said.
First Nations have concerns
First
Nations groups in the Miramichi area are also opposed to the stocking
plan, citing a lack of consultation with them and similar concerns about
potential genetic effects on wild fish.
Copies of Lapointe's
letter were sent to James Irving, Glenn Cooke, Brian Moore, New
Brunswick's members of Parliament, all provincial MLAs, and Premier
Blaine Higgs, who has advocated at senior levels for the CAST project in
Ottawa.
The Fisheries and Oceans decision raises questions
about the fate of as many as 13,000 captive adult salmon now being held
in the South Esk hatchery.
Jim
Irving, co-ceo of J.D. Irving Ltd. is listed as a director of CAST,
along with Glenn Cooke of Cooke Seafood and businessman Brian Moore. (Youtube)
Lapointe
suggests the salmon could be useful for experiments on thermal
tolerance and recovery.
Another option, she said, is to release "not
reproductively viable" salmon, equipped with acoustic tags, at sea to
assess movement and mortality.
In an email statement to CBC, the
executive director of CAST said he was "very disappointed" the
department doesn't support the project, and he accused it of showing no
"real leadership."
"Currently, there are no legitimate
scientists opposed to the CAST SAS plan, and many are actually very
supportive," said Andrew Willett, who is also a manager with J.D.
Irving.
Willett did not respond to questions about the future of
the stocking plan or what will now happen to the fish being held in the
South Esk hatchery.
But Willett said the government's position "defies common sense," so CAST will regroup to find a way forward for the project.
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