Care to share info on this?
I'm unclear as to why you suggest Canada has not place-marked MM and MSF opportunities in the PSC process? Couple of quotes (attached below) from the PSC 2019 report seem to indicate otherwise, so I'm a bit confused.
I believe the real road-block is the ongoing internal debate within DFO as to how they shift from CWT to PBT, and the impact of a dramatic shift to MM and MSF Fisheries in the long-term integrity of the CWT program as a management tool going forward. Fun times.
2.1 Mass Marking Proposals Received
A total of 22 MM proposals (8 for Coho, and 14 for Chinook) were received by the PSC for 2019 marking activities (Appendix A). Of the proposals received, two were from southern British Columbia (BC) and 20 from southern United States (SUS). All proposals are summarized in Table 2-1.
3.1.3 New MSF Proposals Five new MSF proposals were received for 2019; one for recreational Chinook Salmon in southern B.C., and four for Chinook and Coho test fisheries in the lower Columbia River1 . There are several concerns regarding the B.C. recreational Chinook proposal, including complex (mark-mixed or mark- and size-mixed bag) regulations, visual sampling of heads leading to no unmarked tag recoveries, misalignment of catch sampling and CWT recovery programs with regulation boundaries, lack of estimates of released catch and for catch in certain periods, and no projected mark rates. The current evaluation of this proposal was based on some assumptions due to the non-specific nature of the proposal; the committee will reevaluate the proposal when an updated version is submitted. T