B.C. trawlers dump thousands of salmon, depleting orcas food source

B.C. trawlers dump thousands of salmon, depleting orcas food source

Source: vancouversun

1/19/2024

B.C. trawlers dump thousands of salmon, depleting orcas food source

Credit: Keith Holmes

A B.C. wildlife protection group says chinook salmon that form the key diet for endangered orcas are being caught in their thousands by trawlers, only to be dumped or turned into compost.

Pacific Wild said it had obtained a yet-to-be-published Fisheries and Oceans Canada report on groundfish trawl bycatch, which found more than 28,000 salmon were netted as bycatch in the 2022-23 fishing season, with 93 per cent of them — more than 26,000 — chinook salmon.

Pacific Wild marine specialist Sydney Dixon said the valuable and threatened fish were wasted and the bycatch would have been enough to feed three or four endangered southern resident killer whales for a year.

Salmon, Chinook

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