No ones not accepting DFOs in charge and I don’t know who you feel is wallowing because they feel, as you eloquently state, “butt hurt”? I’m simply pointing out that no matter how forcefully you rant hyperbole and your poor assumptions and understanding of survey data and it’s use, it doesn’t change the fundamental fact that non-randomized dock surveys, over flights and emailed online surveys with no QA/QC control are amongst the least valuable data source. Such data has massive uncertainty and error, which multiplies as more than one source is utilized and as it’s plugged into various models. In such scenarios, if error and uncertainty are properly calculated and reported, the error bars and range of possible results are so large the results aren’t remotely reliable.
My point has always been that you can continue to bury your head in the sand and pretend it’s alright, or the rec sector can organize, raise funds and lobby as the other sectors have to a) demand DFO employ their Science sector to design a science-based data collection model for the rec sector and/or b) for our sector to hire our own scientists to do the same.
Cheers!
Ukee