Quinte Fishing

Would there be any angler support for such a package? If an offer were made by the Government most of the comercial operators would vanish and they would welcome angler support. Input?

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DAVE

I believe that there would be substantial support for this if it was presented properly.

Personally I think the cost relative to the benifit would be cheap (estimate based over 5 years at roughly 2 million maximum with lots of options to ensure full compliance and support). I trully believe that gill nets must go...all of them. I also believe there would be mega support from the general public for any accompanying pulling of all remaining gill nets.

Any commercial operator in the Bay of Quinte needs to be using live release gear. Taking it a step furtrher any resource user including commerical operators needs to be putting something back into the resource regardless of use, background, origin, etc.. Fair across the board, in this case, would be a package that natives, non natives and even a few begrudging commercial operators would be foolish to refuse.

The funding for this could come from a variety of places and for anyone that thinks the dollars are not there.....wrong. They are or can be.

This is one of the few winnable points in the Bay of Quinte fishing. It would have a substantial positive impact on resource interaction amongst all user groups, the community, next to everyone. It makes me shudder with tax paying delight, to think of how doable this is.

This would be a bold leadership move in the right direction.

ODG

I would support a buyout, it has been done successfully in other areas. When I fished Lake Erie in the spring in Ohio I heard a few people talk with distain that the Canadians still allow gillnetting and it may be think about how sad it is we allow a few people to take resources away from thousands of others we really enjoy it and respect it. I would even "gladly" pay 10$ to launch my boat each time if it went to and replaced the gill netters in the bay. (I like the "new" site, now that I'm used to it, Dan)