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‘Fishing the hell’ out of B.C. sockeye may be best way to preserve stocks, UBC professor says

Few know the issues better than Carl Walters, a fish biologist and professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia, who has studied Fraser sockeye and other salmon species for five decades. To some, he’s a legend; to others, he’s become a pariah. Prof. Walters was once a hard-line protectionist on Fraser sockeye. He endorsed “precautionary management”  Read the rest here  23:27