Each fish kept must be noted on the licence and no more than 15 chinooks can be retained from the Strait in a year. |
I was around in the days when people used to catch and release sockeye because they were in pursuit of chinooks. |
Fisheries and Oceans technical staff agree there are sufficient stocks of chinooks for us to fish. |
Mr. John Cummins: Aren't these escaped chinooks certainly a major risk to chinook stocks on the west coast? |
In Alberta, Canada, those complaints revolve around chinooks, the warm winds that sweep the area during winter. |
On the Cowichan River, once so famous a stream that anglers' catches merited reports in The New York Times, the return of natural-spawning chinooks in 2009 was the lowest ever recorded. |