Conservation of Salmon and Sea Trout

“Salmon” means fish of the species Salmo salar and “sea trout” means fish of the migratory form of Salmo trutta, but does not include a sea trout which is 40 centimetres or less in length measured in a straight line from the tip of the snout to the fork of the tail. Notwithstanding anything contained in any bye-law prohibiting the taking or having in possession of more than a specified number of salmon or sea trout, a person shall not take by rod and line more than 10 fish (being either salmon or sea trout or a combination of both) in any year. A person shall not take by rod and line, during the year 2007 from 1 January to 12 May, more than one fish, on any day in any year, - from 13 May to 31 August, more than 3 fish, or from 1 September to the end of the season, more than one fish, being either salmon or sea trout. This provision is made to recognize the importance of sustaining salmon habitat on the continued survival and abundance of salmon. With direct access to the finest, all natural, sustainable food in the world and to ensure a fair return to salmon fishermen in keeping with fair trade principles. Salmon were once abundant in streams from Baja California across the Pacific Rim to Korea. At present all seven salmon species are declining, because of the over fishing, dams, logging and reduced water quantity have dramatically reduced salmon runs. And declines in terrestrial wild life. This shows that human recreation and leisure deeply affect the declining of salmon species, if this is not given full attention or control. This will bring imbalance to nature and will affect other species. Human intervention in there recreation for fishing is not only the cause but also the structures built to bring benefits to a certain place like the dams, if such structure is not studied well the result will affect those species who depends on the natural habitat, that is to be interfered by human structure. It should be considered that every thing should be done with full study of the effect on certain species dependent on the natural habitat and to the people. Also the demands of salmon in restaurants are getting high while the salmon species are declining. We finally realized that killing all the salmon was bad for business, most of us remained oblivious to the intricacies of the natural economy.

The way to keep the canneries running and the sportsmen satiated, we decided, was simply to build more salmon, and hatcheries were touted as the salmon savers. But the same struggling ecosystem that supports wild fish also must support hatchery fish. Now, with the hatchery fable exposed by the continuing declines in salmon runs, the global fish industry is trying to tell us that salmon farming is the answer to what is merely a commodity shortage. But pen-rearing salmon creates pollution problems and removes us even further from responsible stewardship of the marine food web, leaving the watershed upon which wild runs depend unprotected even by the force of the marketplace.

It is not enough simply to manufacture more salmon in farms and hatcheries and do little or nothing to restore their natural watersheds and oceanic habitat. Vanishing salmon signal a commodity crisis, but more profoundly, they are telling us that something is amiss in the way we engage ourselves in the sprockets of the natural world. We have been bound to a paradigm that places human beings in the center of life's web with the power to control natural systems, but through salmon we are beginning to see that the destruction of the wild diminishes us immensely. And unless we transform our way of inhabiting the earth it is becoming clear that the continued extinction of runs of wild salmon is a harbinger of our own extinction.