I know you won't like what I have to say but you've gone so fa already, now do it right. Rip up the floor and replace both stringers. Wood is organic and will rot eventually. That's the problem with 30+ year old wood-component boats; they are due for major rebuilts at some point. If you decide...
Back to your original questions:
1) You don't need to fish barbless if you target bottom fish. If you accidentally hook a salmon, that is fine as long as you can convince the CO that you are indeed targeting bottom fish. To help your case you should maybe show some bottom fish dead in your fish...
I think you're being paranoid about potential health or environmental impacts from the lead balls but if you like painted balls then good. You'd likely absorb more lead in your daily food than you'd ever pick up from touching a lead ball 3 times during fishing.
And yet it just seem impossible to do for humans. Just show me a fishery that is sustainable? Hardly any around the world. Greed, greed, greed....everywhere....
There is no way DFO or even Coast Guard can enforce this 10kt rule near Renfrew. Or do you think they sit on a rock on the Westcoast trail with a radar gun? One of these BS "we gotta do something" measures.
As for power of advocacy; not a day goes by that there isn't someone from Vancouver...
To be honest, I am at the point of believing that we might be able to negotiate and deal much more effective and successful with a fn fisheries government.
That's what happens when you keep playing the rigged game over and over.... Break out of this stupid SFAB process which legitimizes this yearly nonsense!
There is nothing whatsoever sustainable about a kill-fishery for roe. It defies every sustainability concept where a species is allowed to reproduce at least once before it can be harvested. To kill herring before spawing to harvest the roe only is such a deplorable waste. A waste of the...
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