wildmanyeah
Crew Member
Actually your friends have it all wrong David, the way forward will be to work collaboratively with all stakeholders to manage the resource and use it wisely in a sustainable way. Giving "control" over fisheries management to one particular stakeholder is simply a recipe for disaster. We have a few examples of working together in Harvest Round Tables where all stakeholders sit around a table with the science facts from DFO and they make decisions around how fisheries will be run. The next logical evolution of that process would be to have those same stakeholders directly involved in determining the major fishery management policy decisions....how we manage hatchery production, repair or construct new habitat, protect sensitive habitats important to our fisheries, manage predators etc.
How do roundtables determine the amount of FSC catch?