Busterbrown
Active Member
This year there seemes to be more of a problem reguarding species ID. The cleaning table gets real busy around 1400 every day. Yesterday there was a fisherman who had a very nice coho around 15 lbs that he was cleaning up, I commented to him that he had a very nice coho. He then proceeded to give me a lesson on how you could tell it was a spring. His reasoning was that it was too big to be a coho!!!! Earlier in the week I saw a boat with a fish in the net over the side of his boat with the fishing regs out trying to id the fish . after approx 3 minutes they brought it in board and killed it. Not sure what it was but if you are that unsure of what you have let er go.
Earlier in our trip they were MANY sockeye being cleaned before they were open. When I diplomaticaly point out that they have a sockeye, I was told they were chum or pinks .This situation repeated many times over the last month We were checked almost every day by the creel survey person who also made the same observations I have however she stated they do not have enforcement ability and do not report to DFO reguarding violations. I have called DFO in the past suggesting they may want to conduct a check at the resort however nothing has happened. Is this a common problem ?
Earlier in our trip they were MANY sockeye being cleaned before they were open. When I diplomaticaly point out that they have a sockeye, I was told they were chum or pinks .This situation repeated many times over the last month We were checked almost every day by the creel survey person who also made the same observations I have however she stated they do not have enforcement ability and do not report to DFO reguarding violations. I have called DFO in the past suggesting they may want to conduct a check at the resort however nothing has happened. Is this a common problem ?