Royal Bay Fishing Charters & Marine Services

05/22/2026

Stop Alaska Trawler “ Bycatch”!!!

04/27/2026

Oooh yeah! Two for the Boys! 🐠🐠🎣🎣🎉🎉✔️Freighters close by….

04/15/2026

This Sunday! Let’s all show up.
Salmon are a common food source.
Unfounded restrictions and closures.
Government decisions are concerning to all Canadians.

Hello all,

There is an important meeting scheduled for Sunday April 19th, 10.00 AM at the Legion Hall in Langford.

Many of you may have attended a similar meeting last November when there were serious concerns that DFO would be coming after the recreational fishery for more regulations to protect Southern Resident Killer Whales, and Upper Fraser River Chinook. I would like to say that things have improved and become more clear since that time. Unfortunately that is not the case.

In fact it has worsened since with the inclusion of potential revisions to the 1999 Salmon Allocation Policy that would remove the priority access for Chinook and Coho and transfer that priority to the general commercial salmon fishery, effectively removing the guard rails that have safeguarded the public fishery and provided some degree of certainty of access for the two species that drive the fishery, making it the most valuable salmon fishery on the west coast by a wide margin.

I am not going to go into the details in this email, I expect most of you know what they are by now.

This meeting is intended to provide accurate updates on the critical issues from recreational representatives who were in discussions with DFO during, for the lack of a better word, a secretive consultation process which concluded at the end of March.

Aside from the critically important SAP issue, there are still concerns about additional measures to protect Upper Fraser spring and summer Chinooks, and potential severe closures on Chinook fishing in important south coast fishing waters to protect SRKW's.

I have attached a poster that has just started to be distributed to fishing outlets and businesses on the south Island promoting this meeting.

The speaker list will be short but the information they will provide is up to date and very important going forward. The meeting will be open to questions and discussions from the floor. There are also a number of door prizes available.

I hope you can attend, regardless of your connection to our public salmon fishery. If these proposals, as they currently exist, are approved by Minister Thompson it will have a devastating impact on our access to what is still a resource that belongs to all Canadians.

See you there,

Tom Davis

04/04/2026

First day out was great😎🐠🐠🎣🎣

02/19/2026

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1GBSdQW8oX/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Often forgotten in the Salmon Allocation Policy discussions is the value of the recreational fishery in BC. This sector is a net contributor to government revenue. Anglers pay millions of dollars annually in license fees, and via the Salmon Conservation Stamp. It directly funds community salmon restoration initiatives. It is a user-pay system that supports the resource it relies on.

Graphic provided by Island Fisherman Magazine
https://islandfishermanmagazine.com/recreational-fishing-generates-1-276-billion-in-revenues-a-breakdown-of-bcs-coastal-economy/

02/07/2026

GO SEAHAWKS!!!😎💥🎉✔️

05/28/2025

This works, try it!

04/22/2025

The Filipino Boys… Zian & Shann landed thier first Halibut, Dog shark & 50lb skate ray.
😎🐠🎣🎉💥🦀🇨🇦

04/06/2025

The Filipino Boys Shann, Zian & Nino had a great day on the water today. Kept 3 Hatchery Chinook, 5lb, 10lb and 20lb … along with a few crab. Three releases. Depths 115, 95 & 65ft 😎🐠🎣🦀

04/06/2025

Young Alberta family visited Victoria Waterfront on a beautiful day for fishing. Two nice Hatchery Chinook and a dozen Dungeness Crabs were a score today😎🐠🎣🦀💥🎉🇨🇦