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General · 15th October 2009
Alex Morton
Dear Minister Shea:
Today, Barry Rosenberger, BC Interior area director for the DFO's Pacific region, is quoted in The Record:
“There has not been a salmon collapse in the Fraser"; and “while this year's sockeye return is the lowest in 50 years, Rosenberger said, “they've rebuilt stocks from worse cases in the past.”

http://www2.canada.com/newwestrecord/news/story.html?id=0d908438-f4e8-4ca8-8ac6-6fd447340ce8

On the same day, Stephen Hume published DFO sockeye numbers to date throughout the Fraser River in the Vancouver Sun including:
Nechako River System – forecast 374,000...
counted – 71 fish...
In many creeks the number was zero.

http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/worst+years+history+salmon+still+killing+them/2099674/story.html

This is a collapse – these runs cannot rebuild.

This is the third in a series of extremely misleading statements made by your department on the Fraser sockeye.

We need all of you under oath. There must be a judicial inquiry. This behavior is immoral.

Alexandra Morton
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