It always comes back to the Island guys claiming its all good the way it is and your abilty to get a few halibut on a trip is not nearly as important than fishing hali in november. Thats where I throw out that if the DFO put in a Tuna Quota of 2 per day how would they feel about that and never get a responce. The thing is don't claim to represent the majority of resident rec anglers it's just not the case.
Terrin
you should learn about a fishery before throwing it under the bus; tuna are a highly migratory species that come within our shore lines 45+ miles for a short period of time; and are only accessible for an even shorter period of time by a very small % of boats on this coast. Those of us that fish for them spend as much in a day in fuel as it costs the avg person to make the trip to the island for a weekend; at the same time we still have the added costs of moorage; bait, travel to and from on top of the fuel, so in actual we are spending double to do this fishery. why? because we like doing it!
Do you hear us tuna fisherman barking every time another dozen boats show up to the ground? NO! we actually will help the new guys get onto fish. It isn't a fishery like any other at this point and we want to keep it like that. we all choose to live where we do for a reason, and if you are going to be petti because you want more of something and feel you aren't getting your share; do something about it; don't drag another user group in as examples as a lot of trolls visit this site. if you want more halibut; go and catch it; do something about it rather than ***** about it! it is a resource that is there for all Canadians, buy your license; come to the coast and try to catch them like the rest of us. we all spend the money to access the resource; just because some people have to drive further means nothing, we all put the money out to do our hobbies, everything in life is as we choose it.
I live on the island; have all my life; fished since I could hold a rod. I fish for halibut very seldom; I think they taste like gritty mud sometimes; but those that know me know I don't eat a lot of fish. that being said; if you want white meat, get your limit of lings and cod while you are on your trip to the island. I have a family of 4 that enjoy bottom fish and tuna, tiny bit of salmon, I can do 2 trips a year to get the fish I need for winter, and that is with 0 halibut taken in the last 2 years. there are a lot of edible white fish out there for you to eat; try getting some of those on your trip and take them home; you will find they are better tasting IMO.
If we continue the in-fighting that happens every winter; guides wanting there trophy fish; interior people wanting more fish, some people are going to try and table ideas that are in their best interests and no one else's as we continue to see on this forum; that isn't the way to get your idea going any where; join the process, if your idea isn't what is best in everyone's interest; it wont go anywhere but at least it will be discussed with you present among more people that aren't hiding behind a computer trying to start an argument because they have their own agenda.
Call up your local SFAB rep; talk to them with your ideas; email them; then you can discuss your questions and maybe get some answers; you won't be happy with the answer from what I see year after year on this forum, but at least you may get some info and answers that will help you understand the process and why it is how it is. SFAB are always trying to get us more, as they are fishers as well; but it is a process against big business that wants the whole pie; and we the rec sector don't have the money for lobbyists like they do that spend there whole time protecting what the commercial sector get, so it is a fight; and for guys like vic-tory(Serengeti) that have there own agenda and sit like trolls in the background to start a fight amongst us to push their idea-ology on those that don't understand the process and he wants more of something and will use anyone he can to try and get them to fight for him. a forum isn't the place to get the facts and the important info for things like this, I would recommend going to the source rather than continue getting in arguments with people that have there own agendas to further what they want!
nothing against either you or Clint, I always said I would stay out of the halibut argument as I don't even catch them; but reading this thread and previous, and other groups getting dragged in for no reason other than someone is pissed off and stomping there feet because they feel no one is listening isn't the smartest way for someone to get the right info they need. we need to work together for all of our fisheries before DFO gives it away to big business as they are doing to make there job easier!
