Thanks for the reply Searun, I was hoping someone in the know would let us in on the backroom stuff.
My question is, why do you except this? Why arent your lawyers banging on the doors? and not you personally but the guides association as a whole and PA's COC. It seems like we (the sport sector including G/O) try and then we get blown off, and are like " moh well, we'll try again next year". That is not an acceptable attitude IMO if my lively hood is on the line. Thats a side from how moraly wrong these fish are being managed. I mean How many businesses and G/o suffered during this debacle? how many $$$ in revenue? and no one is really doing anything that will amount to anything,
I am not giving anyone a hrad time just trying to understand. If threating oour resources and your livelyhood isnt enough to get you fired up and REALLY do something im not sure what is...
Now this along with a few others is the kind of dialog I was hoping to spur on by my blockade post. Honest questions and honest answers. It is time we start looking at more effective ways of dealing with this stuff.
The bottom line is the feds ,dfo, and the province for that matter are controlled by big business and big money. We can play politics by writing letters and threatening not to vote for so and so and asking mla's and mp's for support all we want . results will be the same forever as we do not put the dollars in the
Right Pockets. We can ask for transparency all we want too. DFO loves hiding the real issues behind endless streams of data and numbers that give the allusion of transparency,satisfying the average person that cares but dose not live it and see it as we do.
The fact is greed is at the forefront of this thing.
I said in previous post that I thought the commies are victims as well. History has proven time and time again that wen the" machine" that is big money business takes control it spells the end for the honest guy trying to make a living. More importantly it spells the end of the resource that is being exploited. They will provide a perceived look of conservation and care,only until the well runs out .
This kind of aggressive harvesting has brought our somas Chinook to it's knees. I am sure some of you remember the Nahmint Chinook fiasco. How many of you remember how many blue backs we had in the Georgia straight before the big boats started fishing them,and all the herring.Up till then the troll fleet enjoyed consistent fishing and more over the fish they caught landed in the local communities they lived and raised their families in. Once the "Machine " arrived we never even laid eyes on the fish again. We know how fast they went through them. And so on and so on.
Once this resource is gone the machine will move on to the next thing without ever looking back. We will be left with no real rec opportunities and the commercial boats will sit idol and unemployed. But make no mistake the boys atop the machine and the ones that played along with them ( polaticion's and DFO brass) will be the ones who will have the fat pockets.
I think most of us appreciate very much the hours donated by folks who sit at the meetings and the effort that has been made.(I know I do) I just think a new and more aggressive, route needs to be explored.
The fact is, what is and has always been done is not and will not work. Even if we get them to time the fleet differently to provide a more fair opportunity for the rec sector it dose nothing to address the real concern.
I don't know what that route should be exactly, but I do think that public awareness is key. As long as we allow them to keep feeding the public a positive image of what is going on ,we will never get the support we need. That is why I made the post and that is why I hope more people chime in with ideas.
Once again I am sure this post is not without it's flaws ,but it dose begin to describe what I think the reel issues are and that we are in need of new ideas.
Cheers: Ray