Stop Blaming the Seals and Sea Lions!

The Broken Ocean Food Chain!

Stop Blaming the Seals and Sea LIons! 

The herring “food and bait” fishery has already started. DFO approved again a 20% harvest rate that would decimate this population! The roe fishery could start in late Feb or early March. 

Please Sign and Share this Petition to the Government of Canada!

Whereas:

·       The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) announced that the Pacific herring population dropped by approximately 1/3 between 2016 and 2019, and will drop by more than 50% by 2020; ...

·       Pacific herring is the basis of the food web that supports salmon, killer and humpback whales, cod and halibut, seabirds and other independent species on the Pacific Coast; 

The Full Petition: https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-2342