'Nobody makes a living just doing salmon now'

Larry Pynn
November 4, 2008
Vancouver Sun

Look B.C.'s top fisheries official in the eye and ask what advice he would give his own son or daughter wanting to get into the commercial salmon fishery.

"Weigh carefully the implications," offers Paul Sprout, a fish scientist turned regional director general for Fisheries and Oceans Canada. "Go in with your eyes open."

Sprout is a bureaucrat swimming upstream, tasked with the job of managing salmon stocks that once represented the backbone of the fishing industry but today provide only a fraction of past harvests, with no change in sight.

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