GLG you are absolutely correct!!!! There should be no Canadian caught Halibut sold outside of Canada until,,,, ALL Canadian needs have been met - pure and simple! The Canadian TAC is set each year for CANADA and the needs of Canadians, not for a select few commercial license holders (of which there are many that don't even live here, or fish the license

) to sell out to other countries for their personal profit at the expense of the rest of Canada's access to a resource allocated to them as a whole country.
Another year has gone by and the f_-_ing DFO still has done nothing to fix the god damned problem (besides getting on their knees to assume the position to pleasure and keep the Commercial fleet happy). Yeah, now we got the stupid fawking halibut quota purchase program, what a great fawking idea that was! This commercial greed HAS GOT TO STOP!!!!!!!!!! - NOW!!!!!!!!! Shut the whole fugging thing down and start it over again from the ground up, whole new system with new rules, based on the fundamental premise that the needs of Canadian Citizens are met first and foremost!
As far as a tag system, I would fully support and agree with one. We need to attain accurate numbers for the number of licenses that are targeting Halibut and we do need to accurately and also have mandatory recording and reporting of our catch for conservation purposes to continue to work with IPHC and stay within our allocated TAC. Once we have one year under our belt on a tagged fishing season, we will then have real numbers to show how many of us intended to target Halibut and at the end of the season (or throughout the season - depending upon how the reporting is handled) we will have way more accurate numbers in regards to the Sporties pressure on the TAC. The key here is to make it mandatory 100% - absolutely no grey area at all, you have to record and report your catch, if you don't and you get caught, you loose your boat, truck, gear, all of it!!!! No fawking around at all, play by the rules or get nuked, not just burned! Once we have real numbers - THEN and only then can we determine how much of the TAC should the allocated to the Commercial sector for them to sell to the Canadian market so that this resource is available to Canadians that can't get out to the west coast to fish for them in person.
DFO has to go!
DFO has to GO! DFO HAS TO GO!
I have to go, I can feel the blood pressure rising!
Cheers.