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