Yup, could have ramifications going forward for sure. Fisheries mgmt is not easy and the mess DFO finds itself in is not conducive to sound decision making IMO. The rational voices in the room are often drown out by the few loudmouths in the Rec, Comm, FN fisheries and it leads to decisions that don't have conservation first and foremost. I don't see a quick fix to this either. One thing I will add re: the commercial herring fishery in general is that these herring populations are not well understood at the local level and often lumped in as simply 'herring biomass'. Like other fish species, herring populations are unique and diverse to some extent to I believe past fisheries measures have led to the loss of many 'localized' populations. I recently spoke with a commercial fisherman who has been fishing for decades as even he said that we need to lay off the herring fishery in the Strait. Even if SOG populations seem somewhat healthy the numbers are still too low and IF we didn't fish the SOG herring as hard it would lead to expanding populations elsewhere on the south coast (WCVI, Northern Inside Passage, etc).