Port Coquitlam & District Hunting and Fishing Club

Special General Meeting 📣
Tuesday, June 16th 📣

PCDHFC Board of Directors will be hosting an SGM to vote on changes to the Club’s membership year, which will sync the membership year to the calendar year. Additionally, changes will be presented on table officer signing requirements, to be more in line with how other societies operate.

The meeting will be held in the Clubhouse on Tuesday, June 16th at 7pm.
Doors open at 6:30pm.
Please bring your membership card.

ATTENTION 📣
The PCDHFC office will be closed on this Saturday, May 23rd. Please make note of this prior to your visit over this coming weekend!

We are offering an open house event for both club and community members alike, and will be open from 10am to 2pm on June 6th! We are encouraging non-licensed members of the community to attend, and would appreciate you sharing the information with your friends and family. If you can not make the event but know of someone who would be interested, please share the registration link below. We will provide new-to-shooting individuals with a safety orientation on firearm handling, and the chance to try shooting a variety of fi****ms under the supervision of our safety officers for a $10 fee.

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Upcoming CFSC/CRFSC and CORE Hunter courses hosted at PCDHFC!

CORE is June 6+7 from 9am to 4pm (2-day course), $210 per person.
If you or someone you know is interested in hunting in BC, they must first complete their CORE Hunter Education course.

CFSC/CRFSC is June 20+21 from 10am to 4pm (2-day course), $210 per person.
This is the first step towards you, your friends, or family getting their fi****ms license.

Registration at the office, by phone or in person.

Currently Needed: Game Meat for Our Wild Predators

We’re looking for:
• Elk, deer, or moose
• Large, unseasoned red meat chunks
• Steaks or roasts (no ground meat)

Please do not bring:
🚫 Pork
🚫 Chicken
🚫 Turkey
🚫 Fish
🚫 Ground or seasoned meat

📍 Drop-off location:
481 216th Street, Langley
🕘 Open daily: 9 AM – 6 PM

We can’t do pickups, so THANK YOU to everyone who brings meat in person. Your support helps us feed and care for orphaned and injured wildlife. ❤️

Questions? Email us: [email protected]

EDIT: Road is open, one lane only!

Upper Harper Road has been closed by the city of Coquitlam. The city has placed barricades on the road.
It is unknown when they will open the road.
As soon as we receive an update we will post on our website and here on Facebook.

Did you receive the PCDHFC Survey? 📣
The board of directors has emailed a survey to all members from the 2025 calendar year. We would appreciate your feedback!
If you do not see it in your inbox, please check your “promotions” folder or similar, spam/junk - or your email on file may not be up to date.

How to Show Support for Your Fishing Rights in BC: Tidal and Non-Tidal Waters 💧

Several GGMH members attended the BC Wildlife Federation Coquitlam Town Hall Meeting last Thursday to better understand the proposed changes to the 1999 SAP.

At a high level the KEY changes proposed include: Language, Priority and Allocation

Language Changes, Removal of:
- Fish as a “Common Property and Common Property Resource”...currently these terms included in the1999 SAP are proposed to be removed. This language defines the idea that fish are a common property and resource for ALL Canadians, held in-Trust by the government to manage for ALL Canadians.
- “Priority”: Current Policy – the Recreational fishery group, you and I, have PRIORITY status OVER the Commercial group for the Coho and Chinook species.

Allocation:
- First Nations and the Commercial groups, aligned to propose the “commercial” group have priority over the recreational group, and a share of the Coho and Chinook fishery.
- This proposal stems from First Nations, “the 2018 British Columbia Supreme Court’s ruling in Ahousaht. The Court found that DFO’s application of the policy unjustifiably infringed on five Nuu-chah-nuth Nations’ (Ahousaht, Ehattesaht/Chinekint, Hesquiaht, Mowachaht/Muchalaht and Tla-o-qui-aht) Aboriginal rights to fish and sell fish insofar as the SAP accorded priority in allocation to the recreational fishery over the Five Nations’ right-based sale fishery for Chinook and Coho salmon.”

DFO Oversight, Management and Decision Making
- Salmon Allocations are to follow the CSAF policy, approved in 2015, carried out under the separate Integrated Fisheries Management Plan (IFMP).
- IFMP – reference to SAP policy, “the policy may provide guidance and factors that should be considered in decision-making…by IFMP”. Language changes to SAP will affect the DFO decision process. DETAIL is vacant towards providing any clarity on how DFO decision processes will be affected by the proposed language changes towards each group if accepted.

Additional detail on proposed changes to the SAP for your review can be found at the following URLs:
https://bcwf.bc.ca/salmon/
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/619bf7c1ac6f813814418a02/t/69435a9fcf950d15acbb5321/1766021791171/BC+Salmon+Allocation+Policy+Review+Discussion+Paper_05-Dec-25+end+Jan+23.pdf

Thanks for your attention to this request. It is vital to show the decision makers at the political level, how important fishing is to recreational fishers.

Brian Simonson
Hatchery Coordinator, GGMH/PCDHFC

Check out the information on our website for further reference!
https://pcdhfc.com/how-to-show-support-for-your-fishing-rights-in-bc-tidal-and-non-tidal-waters/

PCDHFC is proud to support Coquitlam Search and Rescue (CSAR) 💪

Coquitlam Search and Rescue was formed in 1972 as a result of a search on Burke Mountain by North Shore Rescue and members of the Coquitlam RCMP detachment because there was no local team.
Over the years, the team has grown into about 45 active members. The team is called out to roughly 30 to 40 search and/or rescue operations each year, including mutual aid calls to other teams in the Lower Mainland, and other areas in the Province of British Columbia, and in Washington State.
In recent years, the team has also assisted the local police forces with evidence searches and urban searches for missing persons, as well as assisting the Tri-City communities with a variety of emergency preparedness tasks.

PCDHFC is a proud supporter of Share Family & Community Services 🙌

SHARE Family & Community Services Society started as a children’s clothing exchange in 1972 in the basement of founder Gertie Grosser’s home and quickly became a focal point for community members who wanted to help themselves and their neighbours with life’s challenges. Today SHARE is a non-profit, independent, community based organization providing leadership and programs in response to the social needs of the residents of the Tri-Cities (Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Anmore and Belcarra), New Westminster and adjacent communities.