RECREATIONAL Quota Reduction - What does this mean?

[Fishing?]

I was reading some of the Rec regs and saw this;

FN0716-RECREATIONAL - Salmon - Sockeye - Barkley Sound and Alberni Inlet - Area 23 - Quota Reduction - August 1, 2025

Quota Reduction? What is the quota for rec fishers? When did this start?

 

[wildmanyeah]

I was reading some of the Rec regs and saw this;

FN0716-RECREATIONAL - Salmon - Sockeye - Barkley Sound and Alberni Inlet - Area 23 - Quota Reduction - August 1, 2025

Quota Reduction? What is the quota for rec fishers? When did this start?

its sockeye, run size was reduced, tac was reduced, no tac left= shutdown rec

 

[Fishing?]

its sockeye, run size was reduced, tac was reduced, no tac left= shutdown rec

I understand run size information but this appears to be something new, at least the language.

When did recreational fishers get a quota system for salmon? Where would THAT information be?

 

[wildmanyeah]

I understand run size information but this appears to be something new, at least the language.

When did recreational fishers get a quota system for salmon? Where would THAT information be?

They don't have a quota they have an expected catch but it comes out of the total TAC.

 

[wildmanyeah]

so if other sectors over fish the tac rec goes down with the ship. as I understand it rec has a pretty large expected catch as the PA rec fishery was bigger back in the day. Mostly we under fisher the expected catch and remainder is usually picked up by the gilnet fleet.

If we had an actually TAC it would still be open

 

[Fishing?]

They don't have a quota they have an expected catch but it comes out of the total TAC.

But they didn't post it that way, they posted " Recreational quota" as it being part of a total share/count, commercial, escapement, FNs.

It sounds like a certain amount for each group, not the total, a part of a total.

If it doesn't exist why start introducing the terminology at all?
Is it so later they can start adding numbers to the accepted word "quota" and nobody notices?

Aren't they or others already talking about Halibut quota for rec fishers? Like purchasing a "quota"?

Buy a fishing licence that is only good for so much "quota"? Say 5 Chinook, sockeye or other?

Licence prices by number of fish allocated per fisher?

Tin Hat Stuff no doubt but it is such a dumb idea it is almost certainly on DFO's agenda. Fish conservation, counting AND revenue all in one. With start and expiration dates on licence.
And it would not hurt guides either