It hurts my brain reading this after you were so staunchly advocating for commercial fisheries not too long ago, but I like where you're going with this...THIS is why your recreational fishery was cut.
Madness.
Nog
Despite my general unwillingness to support commercial fisheries, I don't have a boat or prawn gear and as a human I naturally incline to seize opportunities, thus I whole heartedly agree with you.I think I speak for everyone on here that we would all load up if they were available for us to purchase at a decent price.
At least this particular topic doesn't need to go down a race related path, and it seems so far that there is a general consensus among forum members.These these types of threads eventually gets shut down by admin because we are treading on a political topic rather than on fishing. However, there is no separating the 2 anymore. There will be nothing left for us and future generations if we don't talk about, vent, get frustrated, understand and eventually take action(doesnt have to be violence or destruction of property) and demand chage. Yeah this is a fishing forum and not a political forum but if we cant talk about the politics involved in how decisions are made how do we find solutions that will eventually lead to change?
Pretty sure the sale and export of any seafood product goes straight into our economy. Not to mention exporting is what brings money into our economy and not the money that goes in circles.Unreal, one has to wonder how much the public fishing sector spends per prawn on a full limit day that goes directly into our economy compared to commercial.
Pretty sure the sale and export of any seafood product goes straight into our economy. Not to mention exporting is what brings money into our economy and not the money that goes in circles.
I can not stand the " RIP N SHIP" mentality in OUR resource sector ! More "VALUE ADDED" is what we need , Everyone would benefit IMHOWith all due respect I understand the commercial guys do that type of work to feed their families. But what pisses me off is where the hell is this originally going? If covid wasn't here and demand was normal, I assume most of this if not just about the entire lot would be going to the US and Asia or Europe. I believe the commercial sector should have quotas on what they are able to sell abroad. Keep the prawns here so that more jobs and industries and businesses like wholesalers, seafood shops, restaurants etc had access at reasonable prices. I venture to guess the overseas buyers pay more. Meanwhile last year we got screwed once again with almost a 50% reduction in the daily quota for rec. I don't blame the commercial guys... my fit is with dfo and the dumbass politicians.
I admit I don't know all the facts but coming from the rec sector and seeing the staggering amount of our natural resources that gets taken out of the water but then to get slapped in the face by dfo which they say they do in the name of conservation like the spot prawn reduction and the 2 weeks worth we got this year for salmon fishing is a fuc*en joke.
Pretty sure the sale and export of any seafood product goes straight into our economy. Not to mention exporting is what brings money into our economy and not the money that goes in circles.
and yet they are still 40 dollars a pound frozen at the store, Something tells me they would rather sit on inventory rather then sell them local at cheaper prices
not is said company is an internationally owned company then the profits get sent back to the mothership and distributed to owners and share holders. Even Canadian company's that are listed my have majority owners that are not even in this country.
Even if the owners are in Canadian and rich odds are they have a diversify investment portfolio where most of their money will be invested out side of Canada.