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CoastalGuy
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At the Port Hardy Coast Guard dock 2 weeks ago I saw 2 gill netters (about 30' boats) were checking in their catch...about 20k lbs and still unloading according to the counter there... Later at Guidos coffee shop I talked with a guy who said he did that job once and the DFO quotas issued are depleting the fishery (ling and other ground fish) which he said in the Hardy area went up to the Charlottes.... With all of the closures everywhere the northern ground fishery seems to have been ignored. Question: Is this fishery going the way of the east coast fishery? Closing a lot of the southern waters and for that letting commercial guys pillage the northern stocks? Witnessing the unloading of gigantic bucket loads of these fish was alarming... shows how efficient a killing machine the commercial tech has become.
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