Title
WCS Canada Comments - Fishery Act for YFWMB - August 2013
Author(s)
Hilary Cooke and Don Reid
Published
2013
Publisher
[Correspondence]
Abstract
We offer support for the Yukon Fish and Wildlife Management Board interpretation of the Implementation of New Protection Provisions under the Fisheries Act. In particular, we believe all fish species in Yukon should be considered part of commercial, recreational or Aboriginal (CRA) fisheries under the Fisheries Act as all are directly fished, are prey or part of a supporting food web, or associated with a fishery. We propose that a project or activity should be considered as causing serious harm if it affects the present or future persistence of a fish population, either directly or through impacts on habitat and the supporting food web, including affecting the ability to adapt to climate change. We also recommend that decision factors and proposed implementation criteria include a provision that any Ministerial decision regarding the protection of CRA fisheries be provided in a public statement fully disclosing which of the four decision factors were used, including the supporting scientific evidence.
Full Citation
[Correspondence] Cooke, Hillary and Reid, Don (2013).Fishery Act for YFWMB
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