British Columbia's salmon fishery is in crisis mode as experts, politicians and fisherman all struggle with the same question: How to bring the salmon back? The Fraser River's once prodigious sockeye salmon runs have undergone an alarming decline in recent years.
As The Globe's Mark Hume wrote in Saturday's newspaper, so few salmon returned to the Fraser this year that commercial and recreational fishing were halted and native communities were unable to catch enough fish for ceremonial activities.
The federal government has launched a judicial inquiry into the collapse, and the search for a plan that will restore the fishery continues. B.C. Fisheries Survival Coalition spokesman Phil Eidsvik joins us for a live discussion about the salmon crisis, and what can be done.
