Ok guys, I just went through all seven pages of posts and read everyone and from what I could digest it seems that the allocation of commercial sport is the real issue, not how to monitor who catches what, and when quotas are reduced, the cut-backs are proportional...not that big of a deal. The real issue here is the 88/12 split, the rest is just details.
Now can someone tell me:
1. Are the sporties taking the DFO to court? because we should be if we are not, and fight for our rights in a proper legal forum rather than just bitching about it here.
2. What legal organizations we have, are the SFI and the SFAB legal, or just advisory, because if they are not legal than we need to create a legal association to represent us, we need to fund them, and they need to fight for us.
We cannot continue to be disorganized like this, hopefully we are more legally organized than I know about, and we all need to pay for the fight that we are going to have. We all know that this 88/12 split is wrong, it's putting property rights of a common resource into the hands of a few, and it's not right, and probably not legal, but that's for the courts to decide.
So can someone out there tell me if we are legally organized and lets start amassing a fund to fight the DFO decision in court where it needs to be fought. The courts and the media are the only way that we can win this battle.