A boom year for the commercial roe herring fishery
NANAIMO —The Strait of Georgia is bustling with commercial fishermen and seagulls preying on huge numbers of spawning herring.
The annual roe herring fishery got started on Saturday (March 4) with gillnetters taking to shallower waters, followed by seiners who got the go ahead from the DFO on Monday (March 6), according to resource manager Brenda Spence.
Spence said about 20 per cent of the forecast 175,000 tonnes of herring available between Comox and Nanaimo can be caught.
She said this year’s fishery could be a historic high.