I guess it depends on who you talk to. I fish out of Pedder pretty regularly and chat with lots of local fishers,,,not guides,,just folks like me with their own boats who drag friends and family along and I've yet to talk to anyone who wants a shorter season in our area. Are their folks that wish for a bigger max size,, absolutely, but in saying that, only one in a few dozen that I've spoken to said they had an oversized fish and he lost it on the way up so it's always the big one that got away. I also spoke to the creel guy yesterday and asked about the size of fish people are bringing in and he said the majority are in the 80-90 cm range. He did say that one guide had one 102 on the nose and another guide reported one in the high 90's but the rest of his clients were 80-90cm. He didn't mention that there were lots of overs being reported. We also landed one last week 101cm but my "uneducated guess" is that for this part of the coast the vast majority of fish being caught are under the new size limits, no if, ands or buts. We hear a story or two where someone reported having to release an over the limit fish and all of a sudden everyone is having to release "overs". First and second hand discussions with fishers does not support it.
One other comment. Looking at the data reported in the table in this thread showing the average weight for the different areas, it does not support the idea that they are many BIG fish being caught. (Some, sure there are) I may not be good with Math and have this totally wrong and open to being corrected but take an area where the average weight was 12-13lbs. (It was 12.6 lbs coast wide) Do you realize how many much smaller fish would have to be caught and kept if only 20-30% of the total catch were BIG fish as so many claim to be catching. Either some are not being totally truthful or the reported data is out to lunch. Both can't be true.