that's great, WMY.I agree I would gladly pay more for my licence if it ment stationing validators at the docks.
More creel surveys and enforcement is something that everyone would welcome. Many have begged for higher licence fees for just this purpose.
However, at this point - there are NO 3rd party validators for the rec fleet. Let's be clear about that. And only a scattered, ad hoc approach to short-term creel surveys (which are not the same thing) for only a few areas of the coast. Lets be clear about that too.
However, there are a few rec posters that want to complain about FN validating their catch - mostly those whom appear to not really know anything about FSC catch and the case law behind it.
And certain sectors of the commercial fleet even have cameras and pay quite high bills to Archipelago to monitor - and have to use those cameras/GPS - on the far end of that catch monitoring spectrum.
“Let him who is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone...” John 8:7