West Coast Herring Recovery Plan

Whereas Fisheries and Oceans Canada has initiated a 2016 commercial herring fishery and roe herring harvest in the Salish Sea; And whereas a previous moratorium on the commercial fishing of herring in the late 1960s resulted in significant recovery of herring populations: Therefore be it resolved that UBCM call upon Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to direct the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to initiate a process to develop a west coast herring recovery plan, with local communities, First Nations, independent scientists and naturalists; And be it further resolved that a moratorium on all commercial fishing of herring be instituted immediately until populations recover to the level decided upon by the herring recovery plan.