Local lodges and businesses call on the Province and DFO to close commercial steelhead fisheries in the Skeena Region. Recent steelhead returns have been low, and despite being in a critical migration period, commercial net fisheries remain unrestricted. Even with selective gillnets, the fisheries are estimated to indiscriminately catch and kill between 20 to 40 percent of steelhead.

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Local lodges and businesses call on the Province and DFO to close commercial steelhead fisheries in the Skeena Region. Recent steelhead returns have been low, ...{ai:summary}<p>Low steelhead returns in the Skeena Region prompt local calls for closure of commercial fisheries. Despite critical migration period, nets continue to operate unrestricted, posing threat to steelhead population. #environment</p>

B.C. Lodges and Businesses Call on DFO to Close Commercial Steelhead Fisheries

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