While I think the owners of the private land has the rights to their privacy but I do think the fishermen are also being kicked around and be deprived of enough parking space at Scale Bar. There are spots by the truck scale closed out for parking unnecessarily. The closing of Pipeline or Snaggy Bar will mean over-crowding at the Scale Bar and Seabird Bar, and yet these bars had closed off parking close to the entry trails to the bars unnecessarily.
While some members here are hammering their fellow fishermen for not respecting posted signs, since when DFO and whoever selling us fishing licenses respect their customers and do their part to provide reasonable parking for known popular fishing areas. Selling large number of licenses and not providing enough legal parking spots will force people to park illegally.
Ian Forbes posted here that in the State, authorities do their share to provide boat launches for fishermen. We are not evening talking boat launches, just some parking spots during the brief fishing season of about one month in those known popular locations, parking spots that are costing nothing to DFO and whoever the authorities are. These were parking spots there already but just closed off with poor excuses from the authority. Yet some members here seem to think fishermen are deliberate in breaking the law. Those poor souls just happened to drive up to 2 hours from town and spent $$$ in gas, then finding no spots to park. Many don't know where else to fish if their intended spot is closed off or running out room to park (in this case due to closure of the Snaggy Bar). Don't expect them to head back to town and forgo fishing.
I don't agree people should break the law deliberately, but the authority is making life very difficult for Fraser fishermen (unless you own a boat). I won't cheer the authority for so doing. There will be more people dropping out of fishing if they get ticketed repeatedly. I personally had friends dropping out just because of their car broken in. So getting parking ticket often when they have no where to park will frustrate people enough to just exit the hobby and just happy to buy cheap from illegal source. I guess some members will be happy to see less people fishing, but fish license fees do help DFO keeping up their stocking program and services. If less people fish, less license revenue, and less funding for fish projects. It goes both ways.