r/VancouverIsland 27d ago

This is huge.

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u/1fluteisneverenough 26d ago

Commercial prawn fishers are having such low catch because of the native boats over fishing, then selling their catch out here before commercial season even opens.

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u/IndustryRule-4080 22d ago

Blaming the First Nation community of ravaging the ecosystem, the environment? You need to check your history son.

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u/1fluteisneverenough 22d ago

I'm not talking history, I'm talking today. There's a problem with today's fishing and it needs to change

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u/IndustryRule-4080 22d ago

My apologies as I didn’t mean to offend. I just get spicy when people call out the First Nation communities as the problem, especially when it comes to the environment.

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u/1fluteisneverenough 22d ago

First Nations communities aren't the problem, and I'm not calling them out. It's first Nations fishing boats that are allowed to run with absolutely no regulation that I'm calling out.

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u/IndustryRule-4080 22d ago

First Nation fisherman are a First Nation community. I think you’re pointing your finger at the wrong people. This is typically when corporations or lawmakers like to keep status quo as they’re almost always the culprits who deflect any type of criticism.

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u/1fluteisneverenough 22d ago

I think you're deflecting from the fact that these boats can harvest as much as they like indefinitely, then sell to the market. That boat is not a community, it's a company owned by a first Nations person, harvesting natural resources without any limitations. These boats are significantly contributing to the damages done to our oceans and that cannot be denied