Stop trolling. I am the last person to defend the SFAB, but the DFO gave them a group of ****** options. 1 of which was this .They worked with Bad DFO models and came up with this. So the answer is yes, the did recommend it. But there were much worse options but thier were defeintely better ones. Not everyone in the SFAB agreed with this recommendation, some were DEAD against it, unfortunately there were not enough of them.
In the end the SFAB process is set up to fail, and a perfect scape goat for the DFO. They want to make everyone feel good, like thier opinion matters, but they are much smarter then that. And they proved that once again here.
THey really took the cake with this one though. Pitting user group vs user group (guides vs rec) area vs area ( scvi vs wcvi vs everyone else) AND have even found a way in the process to make the idea of buying quota even more tempting. All in one swoop.
Now is the time for the infighting to stop. Enough ragging on the SFAB, the process sucks, they made a ****** decision. Time to move on. We must stick together, and put all the rest of this **** behind us and stand up for whats right. This is not about guides, this is not about residents of BC this is not about Victoria. This is about CANADIANS and our RIGHT to a EQUAL ACESS TO a resource. I dont want to see anymore infighting. I want to hear solutions of have to move forward. Protesting the BS regulation ( take that for whatever you want it to mean) and figuring out how not to let this happen again should be a start. But if we continue to fight and continue to let the SFAB shape our fisheries we are doomed.
On a final note, i dont blame anyone on the SFAB, actually thats a lie, i blame a few, but really its the process as a whole. Its broken. Hopefully this is a wake up call to some of those guys whos heart is in the right place, but efforts and knowledge could be so much better used in different venues than in the dead end that the SFAB is. There is no doubt in my mind that MOST of these guys really want to make a difference for all of our benefits, but are restricted to the read tape, bureaucracy and most of all the BS that the process is.