Petition Campaign to Ban or Reduce Pacific Herring Roe Fishery Gains Traction

environment · January 22, 2019 · Hornby and Denman Islands

A petition campaign to ban or seriously reduce the Pacific herring roe fishery around Hornby and Denman Islands is ongoing. Conservancy Hornby has written to Jimmy Pattison, owner of Canfisco which leases all the seiners. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) Regional Manager acknowledged awareness of the petition and its presence with the Minister's office, indicating the petition is gaining traction.

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• “In the petition campaign to ban or seriously reduce the Pacific herring roe fishery around Hornby and Denman, there have been two developments: Conservancy Hornby has written Jimmy Pattison who owns Canfisco which leases all the seiners... DFO has responded to the petition. The DFO Regional Manager in Vancouver who sets the annual quota wrote on January 22nd to say that “We are aware of the attached petition and understand it is with the Minister’s office.” The feeling is that the petition is ga” — The Islands Grapevine – January 24th, 2019 (January 24th, 2019)

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