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Require DFO to Balance Management of all species

Our goal is to negotiate or litigate a viable and balanced management program backed with science based information. This will restore the historic balance of all native species in the Miramichi River system. This cannot be accomplished without DFO's support and involvement as well as support from all the river's user groups.

The Issues

Below is a creative and accurate and low-key story told without blame by eminent fisheries biologist Dr Brian Glebe, of an ecological tragedy that is unfolding on the Miramichi River in NB Canada. There are many perspectives; all sorts of opinions, but the fact is that there are some species and ecological balances and dependant cultural and economic histories that nature has crafted over millennia if not eons. The Miramichi River is one. Right now, the Miramichi, and its historic icon of that balance, the Atlantic Salmon, needs a helping hand, guided by clear thinking fisheries managers. Save Miramichi Salmon is one group that says that hand is crippled; and the mind muddled.

Follow Save Miramichi Salmon for updates on efforts to bring DFO fisheries management policies, scientific analysis and decisions into the open for review by the court

"Our goal is to restore ecosystem balance through science based management of all the river's resources."


by: Concerned Canadians

The Press Release

DFO mismanagement and bad science are destroying a provincial treasure and immediate actions is needed.

The current precipitous decline of Atlantic salmon in the Miramichi River has been rigorously studied by a variety of departments and organizations, not limited to DFO, MSA, ASF and CAST. Everyone knows what balanced management programs should be implemented. The "do nothing" approach that DFO has relied on in the past has proven to be ineffective. Now is the time for action; now is the time for Save Miramichi Salmon's action plan.

 

"That Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s restoration framework prioritize the long-term balance of fish species in the Southern Gulf of Saint Lawrence and Miramichi River”1

- 1 Report of the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans . May – 2019. Striped Bass in the Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence and Miramichi River: Striking a Delicate Balance. 25 p.

This website and SMS’s action is not affiliated in any way with MSA, ASF, CAST Program, NB Salmon Council or any other conservation groups or organizations.

We are a group of riparian landowners, outfitters and fisherman who want to have DFO manage according to the Fisheries Act and balance the Miramichi ecosystem. Immediate action is needed to save Atlantic salmon. The cost to DFO and the government is minimal. It requires DFO to recognize the crisis and to work with local non-governmental organizations and associations who want to save this historically valuable resource.