Chinook salmon fishery cut to protect southern resident orca population Allowable catch of Chinook to be cut by up to 35% to protect southern resident killer whales
Mike Laanela · CBC News · Posted: May 25, 2018 8:13 AM PT | Last Updated: May 25
The southern resident population has fallen to 76 individual animals that face threats from lack of prey, acoustic and physical disturbance, and pollution. (Valerie Shore/Shorelines Photography)
The federal government is getting mixed reactions to its plan to protect southern resident killer whales by protecting the orcas’ primary food: Chinook salmon.
On Thursday, Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc announced plans to cut the allowable catch of Chinook salmon by 25 to 35 per cent.
The number of southern resident killer whales has fallen to just 76 individual animals in recent years, and many have blamed a drop in the number of Chinook salmon.
Chinook salmon are the…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Has it really come to this? 😦
Mixed reaction – it’s hard to accept that there are those out there (and I increasingly believe it is the majority) who would allow animals to go extinct for their own selfish gains. Here where I am, it’s the right whales with fishermen p’ing and moaning about lost money, in Arizona, bludgeoning to death one of the last remaining Mexican wolves. What a pathetic species we are. We’re great at taking care of our own, but terrible when it comes to other life on this planet.