No issues with your post or any of the others, it's good info that we need to know. It just seems to come up every year around this time when the TAC numbers come out and tends to spiral downhill more often than not.
That info is available in the LEC annual report, I will dig it up later when I have time. The commercial harvest is based on actual data and the rec side is based on a model using angler effort and reported success from the sport anglers. It's kind of interesting. Also, the actual harvest is usually quite a bit lower than the TAC set by the LEC.
Well I can tell you I contribute SFA to the issue, and I have pictures to prove it.
Recreational things don't seem to have the same 'influence' as the industry groups. But. It's also local level politics. Recreational fisherman don't have a lot of influence over elections in the places they fish so the local politicians don't really represent them... but again... the local economy probably depends on them. You saw a bit of that this past summer when the locals wanted to close cottage country. Even some business owners supported it but then worried about making money...The 1.12 million recreational fishermen that contribute 1.6 billion dollars a year into the Ontario economy may be allowed a measly 10 perch limit if Ontario should follow Ohio's lead. While the Commercial fishermen In comparison only contribute a mear 230 million into the Ontario economy are allowed 3.737 million pounds of yellow perch. What's wrong with this picture?
