Its nice to see the salmon on the dock and hali, but my concern as well was the big lings too... maybe take a few, but why keep the little rock fish and soo many lings? And why keep 8 lb halis !? when you have a cpl big monster halis.... Poor guiding ethics? Or pushy American tourists?
For starters, the rockfish after about 50 feet just float there like big orange pumpkins, so they are dead already. When your guests are paying you, the ball is in thier court, and ultimatley, in DFO's court.
What the sport fleet takes pales in comparrison to the commercial fleet in terms of ground fish anyway, as in halibut, we only get %12 of the total catch, this year, which was around 916,000 pounds. So let's assume that every angler in BC caught exactly half the halibut we were allowed to, we have saved 458,000 pounds. That number is, in my opinion, not signifigant considering the size of the groundfish fishery.
Had the membrers of that party stood apart, and each person took a pic with a couple halis, lings and springs, it would have looked like a nice day on the water. And that particular picture was a good day, there are plenty of pictures where there was a lot less caught that are just a little less showman like.
Crazy the negativity that has become on this forum...hence the lack of posting recently.
