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Here
a Power Point presentation – graphs etc |
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Agenda here
– later in week PDFs of presentations will be put online Lots
of people attended – I saw them bringing in more chairs several times |
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At one level this is a ‘boring’ meeting focused upon how
many pink salmon were caught in 2011 in each of the North Coast areas 1-6 etc |
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first a little symbolism |
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For me though there was something much more profound
happening before my eyes---- the world was changing --- commercial fishers
were a minority at this meeting – upriver ENGOs and First Nations both
presented majority of lectures and dominated attendance --- Even the DFO was
being supplanted as salmon monitor and data generator. Contrast the symbolism of Allen Gottesfeld,
Harry Nyce and Joy Thorkelson
interacting at the meeting – more later |
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Quick
overview of stats |
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No one ever thought it was going to be a good year for
returning salmon (Expected Returns) --- but commercial expectations were still
for 4.3M Pinks – but only a little over 1 million got caught (blue arrow) |
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Low returns (blue arrow) --- Helicopter finds a slide---
‘repaired’ --- escapement rises dramatically --- pink arrow shows ‘storm’ –
see Northern
View article |
Another
sub-plot of the meeting :Climate Change |
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Again this graph symbolic –the Kwinageese
River was being monitored by Nisga’a --- they noted very low returns (blue
arrow) – a helicopter was sent to take a look – a slide was found blocking
the upstream migration – concrete blocks were air lifted in ---- the run
‘dashed through’ (large increase in colored bars) --- But there is a second
sub-theme here the pink arrow (and black line) depicts water level --- sudden
down-pours were noted in presentations from Nass to
Bella Coola River --- I contend this (increased storm activity) is a sign of
climate change in progress (see PR 10-10-10
storm etc)
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Harry
Nyce gives warning |
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This came after An ENGO from Smithers
area described his group’s attempt to get a current mining project (Booker
Hill Morris
Lake project) to take salmon into consideration at BC
Environmental Assessment level ---
pointing not only to current threat but several older mines in area that were
(potentially?) discharging Cadmium etc into fish bearing
waters --- Which prompted Nyce comments |
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Harry Nyce warns that BC Hydro’s
Northwest Transmission Line was a Trojan horse that would allow much more
mining access to NW BC ---all paid for by BC Taxpayers etc— The ENGO had previously questioned if the BC Environmental
Assessment office was anything but a rubber stamp for industry proposals
(more later) |
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More
on 2011 Integrated Salmon Post-Season Review later in week |
Several presentations gave hopes of cutting edge research
on horizon |
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This speaker has many preserved
salmon with stomach contents that could be analyzed for historical changes etc—while Ivan Winther spoke of
using DNA from Tyee counting net to analyze changes
over time in run timing etc |
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Peter
Freeman gave talk at NWCC earlier in week on Epigenomics
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Freeman highlighted the radical difference epigeomics perspective is from run of the mill Darwinism
--- the acquired characteristics of Lamarck’s theory of evolution replaces
the ‘clean slate’ of Darwinism ---see this great Time
article for simplified version (sans the science diagrams etc) |
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Trucks
on 3rd Avenue |
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I was told this oversized truck had taken down the City
light post by catching on the Christmas wreath as tried to turn on to the
side street ---- so who is going to pay for this --- I bet the City – more
later |
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Images
from earlier in day |
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CBC
documentary crew in town |
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Below they
interview Jim West for insights on Hayes and PR --- Story theme is centenary of the Titanic
sinking --- Northern View story
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Council
meeting Monday December 12th
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More
later |
Created by LG on 11/12/2011
Last updated on Sunday, December 11, 2011