Why is it so hard to decipher the DFO's Notices?
I read the latest one or any this season or last year or the last 25 years I've been fishing Lower Mainland waters, and I'm left frustrated because the Notice does not answer my query, which is: Is there any bloody fishing permitted on a specific river on any specific day.
You get lots of repetitious data about test fishery, their estimate of seasonally adjusted run sizes, water tempretures and volume and on and on and on. And while I'm ranting, DFO please save us recreational fishers from rubbing our noses in all the ceremonial and food and commercial fishing available to Natives. We get it. They can do whatever and whenever they like, by any means and numbers they choose. Well, wonderful for them. No need to repeat it in every Fishery Notice.
Is DFO aware that fresh juicy springs are being sold by Natives in Hope as we speak?
But..........
Is the bloody Harrison River, for instance, open for retention on this day Sept. 2, 2016?
The regs say say yes, as of Sept. 1.
But, in view of the fact that you can't even fish for salmon in the Fraser, is it safe to assume the Harrison is open?
DFO, please consider doing the following in the future:
Place the technical stuff that you love reciting in a technical section of your site; and
Post a simple table showing the pieces of water which are now in the Regulations and show if these are Open or Closed for recreational retention.
Please:
Is the Harrison River open for salmon retention, other than sockeye, as of Sept. 1, 2016?
Yes?
or
No?