sounds like it would work. and you just outlined option 2 from the stanier process.
The Ardent Angler is off base on halibut allocations
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Just be careful with any protest fishery. I've been involved with downtown rolling protests and the media will just sell copies by making you a feature...a bad one. Nothing will sink you faster than a story that plants a perception with the public that you are just another greedy bunch trying to catch more than the other guy. Take some lessons from the FN public media campaign.
Cuba Libre
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Another article from Courtenay--- note the whine that if anglers get more, First Nations will not get thier Food and Ceremonial halibut... another crock......
http://www2.canada.com/comoxvalleyecho/news/story.html?id=29c91836-08da-45ff-a6cd-4cab518f3180
http://www2.canada.com/comoxvalleyecho/news/story.html?id=29c91836-08da-45ff-a6cd-4cab518f3180
Osama Bin Hopper
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Lets not even discuss protest fishery, we haven't lost yet guys!
Holmes, am I finally gonna meet you in CR!?!
Holmes, am I finally gonna meet you in CR!?!
The current program to educate the public anglers with facts at Town Hall Meetings will work, and has had a good impact already...just check out the latest newspaper columns and articles on the sfibc website, which by the way is updated regularly. A good article just came out ion a Prince Rupert newspaper called Muskeg Press. Coupled with the meeting attendance is good old hard work.....but hey, no sooo hard...just phone and meet with local MPs and MLAs...they actually enjoy seeing people face to face, and it doesn't matter how many have been before you, just add your personal concerns to the list. Of course write the letters one to Minister Shea, and make sure one goes to Prime Minister Harper...he may not know what his Fisheries Minister is up to.
I see there is still discussion over the unacceptable proposal to have members of the Public have to buy or lease quota for fish we already own, according to the Minister they are a common property resource of Canadians, so that the public can fish all season long with minimal bag and possession limits?? There seems to me a fundamental flaw in requiring us to pay for our fish which certainly appear to have been given away to private businessmen, unless of course the Minister is correct when she says she can reallocate at any time because she has " absolute Discretion"
Of course no has mentioned that beyond the philosophical debate that we shouldn't have to pay to get access to our own fish, there is the problem that under current Fisheries regulation and Fisheries Act, it is illegal for anyone to purchase quota unless they have a commercial fishing license, in theory attached to a commercial boat. Once the license is legally acquired, no one may fish both recreationally and commercially at the same time. The commercial license catch must be harvested, landed and accounted for as commercial caught fish, then on a separate trip the recreational fish can be caught. That is, as I say, under current regs, which seem reasonable to me....why change them just so the resource can be completely changed into private property for the few who can afford to buy the right to fish?
Cheer up Holmes,if we stick together, and use the political system well and in large numbers, we should see some changes coming this season, but yes, we have to get together, and do some of the homework. Go to the Town Hall meeting near you, talk to some of the resource people there acting as speakers and moderators to see what you can do to help..we need all of you!
Traveller
I see there is still discussion over the unacceptable proposal to have members of the Public have to buy or lease quota for fish we already own, according to the Minister they are a common property resource of Canadians, so that the public can fish all season long with minimal bag and possession limits?? There seems to me a fundamental flaw in requiring us to pay for our fish which certainly appear to have been given away to private businessmen, unless of course the Minister is correct when she says she can reallocate at any time because she has " absolute Discretion"
Of course no has mentioned that beyond the philosophical debate that we shouldn't have to pay to get access to our own fish, there is the problem that under current Fisheries regulation and Fisheries Act, it is illegal for anyone to purchase quota unless they have a commercial fishing license, in theory attached to a commercial boat. Once the license is legally acquired, no one may fish both recreationally and commercially at the same time. The commercial license catch must be harvested, landed and accounted for as commercial caught fish, then on a separate trip the recreational fish can be caught. That is, as I say, under current regs, which seem reasonable to me....why change them just so the resource can be completely changed into private property for the few who can afford to buy the right to fish?
Cheer up Holmes,if we stick together, and use the political system well and in large numbers, we should see some changes coming this season, but yes, we have to get together, and do some of the homework. Go to the Town Hall meeting near you, talk to some of the resource people there acting as speakers and moderators to see what you can do to help..we need all of you!
Traveller
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