Residents of Port Renfrew, a small fishing community in southern Vancouver Island, are anxiously awaiting a decision about a federal fishing closure that they say will devastate the area's economy.
Recreational anglers say the federal government isn’t consulting the locals in its proposal to add closures to the chinook fishery around Port Renfrew.
Recreational anglers say the federal government is using outdated predictive modelling and isn’t consulting the locals in its proposal to add further closures to the chinook fishery around Port Renfrew to protect the endangered southern resident killer whales.
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