UkeeDreamin
Well-Known Member
Access Fishery Notice here:
http://www-ops2.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fns-sap/index-eng.cfm?pg=view_notice&DOC_ID=187504&ID=all
Interesting that the rec sector left a significant amount of quota uncaught last year and, as of the August 31st update in 2015, the estimate was that 958,000+ lbs (of 1,063,550 lb quota) had been caught. This year, as of July 31st, 691,120 lbs, of a 1,100,950 lb quota, has been harvested. Tough that DFO doesn't update this in a consistent manner to allow direct comparison between years but, regardless, looks like the rec sector is well below the harvest rate of 2015 and thus will likely leave even more quota unharvested.
I hope this finally spurs both DFO and the SFAB to review the regs and to abandon the ones that have proven useless (e.g. the undersized fish that only applies to travelling anglers) and adjust the others (annual quota, max size, possession quota, etc) so that we maximize the quota allotment we've fought for (or risk the commie sector requesting it be returned to an 88/12 split!!).
Cheers!
Ukee
http://www-ops2.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fns-sap/index-eng.cfm?pg=view_notice&DOC_ID=187504&ID=all
Interesting that the rec sector left a significant amount of quota uncaught last year and, as of the August 31st update in 2015, the estimate was that 958,000+ lbs (of 1,063,550 lb quota) had been caught. This year, as of July 31st, 691,120 lbs, of a 1,100,950 lb quota, has been harvested. Tough that DFO doesn't update this in a consistent manner to allow direct comparison between years but, regardless, looks like the rec sector is well below the harvest rate of 2015 and thus will likely leave even more quota unharvested.
I hope this finally spurs both DFO and the SFAB to review the regs and to abandon the ones that have proven useless (e.g. the undersized fish that only applies to travelling anglers) and adjust the others (annual quota, max size, possession quota, etc) so that we maximize the quota allotment we've fought for (or risk the commie sector requesting it be returned to an 88/12 split!!).
Cheers!
Ukee