Aquaholic
Crew Member
All sorts of violations. Possibly more to come.
http://www.haidagwaiiobserver.com/news/411595965.html
http://www.haidagwaiiobserver.com/news/411595965.html
Slack assed management.Seems odd that a high end lodge would put themselves in this kind of position. Anyone know the particulars?
Yah.... Unguided. They were then illegally kept by the lodge... to give to their clients. Way to go QCL! Not slack butt management, poor ownership and accountability for the resource that built their lodge.
There is no doubt they have the guides fish & keep some of these fish at the lodges. They use this fish to insure clients get to bring fish home still if they had a bad trip. I am not saying this is ethical, but it dose make folks happier to make it home with some small feed springs when something prevented them from catching fish. This is mostly the case for self guided I would suspect.
what do people expect the lodge to do when someone brings in an illegal fish?
The lodges don't do any more than they have to for the local economy . I have had lodge customers at the trade shows bragging how many Chinook they caught and released, I remind them that half those fish die.
Playing by the rules makes you a pro in my opinion.
They often have 130 guests...pretty easy systems for when multi boats come in, room numbers, a clip board and a couple sharpies keep it all in order..
writing s, c , h , cd, sn, sok.. etc on the vac packs is pretty easy..
only time i find it difficult is at the end of a trip when the large group wants "split fish" it ends up all mixed up in their boxes... worked with groups of up to 18 that are all from different areas but still come together to fish every year and they want everyone to go home with the same amount..
guides keep their own box with their name on it, in the walk in and RESPONSIBLE for their own.
lodge has a box or two also labelled and the manager is responsible for it.
how could a high end lodge or any lodge screw this up?