searun
Well-Known Member
That's the plan - Fisheries Act revisions hopefully will look after the current requirement to record catch "in ink" and once that is eliminated it will open the door to electronic catch recording/reporting. Finally we will have instant and reliable catch data. It is "fisher dependent" meaning the fisher needs to record the data which can be subject to error, and as such will still need to be monitored and independently or "fisher independent" verified. Kind of like an audit. Rec community has been begging for this change for years...it appears to be just around the corner if the Act amendments go through.How about doing away with the paper licenses all together. Making the SFI app mandatory for everyone, and record our catch data there. This data would then be instantly sent to DFO, and BOOM! instant real time data to base informed decisions on. No more fill inn the catch survey emails cuz DFO already knows where I fished and what fish I caught.. No more guessing how much halibut TAC was taken.