double trouble
Member
Smiley. I hope you're not including me in one of the nonaffected group. Although I'm not a lodge, etc., I am in the service side of the rec fishery. I would say (only because I roughed out the numbers) that I have lost 1 million dollars in sales over the last three years because of the uncertainty. But that said, I think the only way to get this done is to clearly send the message to our gov't to go buy quota. They screwed this up in 2003 and the only way I can see to get out of it and not take a pounding through the courts or public opinion and votes is to suck it up and buy quota for the public fishery. I don't like that solution but in the long run I think it would be the least expensive. And I'll tell you what, if they put a buyback out there on quota some commercial guys will sell. Otherwise the so called "slipper skippers" know that the next action from gov't would be for the Minister to use her discretion and take it.