To supporters of the Save Miramichi Salmon litigation strategy: You are receiving this e-mail because you expressed an interest in being kept abreast of SMS’s progress on its potential litigation with DFO.  In May of 2019 the FOPO Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans in Canada produced a document that instructed DFO to balance the populations of Atlantic salmon and striped bass in the Miramichi.  They made this point clearly and strongly.  You can, …Read More →

On 11/22/24, attorneys for SMS sent DFO a Demand Letter that can be read at this link.  In this letter we spelled out the basic approach that must be followed to begin the turn-around of the Miramichi salmon population.  We said that if DFO did not contact us and make a good faith effort to meet and begin negotiations toward these management measures that we would be forced to file litigation against them. So, …Read More →

  Fishing Friends While the early part of this fall was quite mild, the last couple of weeks have been substantially cooler.  This week it has been freezing 24 hours a day with temperatures consistently below normal along the Miramichi Valley.   As the photo below from Boiestown shows most of the river is already frozen.  It was well into January before this pool froze last winter. Twenty years ago, I remember feeling optimistic during, …Read More →