DFO needs to stop checking barbs and licences of fishermen who are obviously fishing within the law and start focusing on the overwhelming abuse of aqua-culture, commercial troll/gill/seign/drag fleets and Aboriginal ocean, and "in river" fisheries in BC. The incidental kill and waste in these fisheries is hundreds and thousands of times more damaging to fish stocks and escapement then the sport fishery could ever be. I'd like to know how "food fish" became a commercial whole sale, gill net fishery???? Another point I'd like to make is that the DFO employs thousands of people in Ottawa but in BC, which is a fish(ing) Mecca, has only 176 enforcement officers. DFO's management decisions are often detrimental and are frequently made to appease commercial fisherman, Aboringial communities, Special interest groups and bureaucrats who want to keep their jobs in Ottawa. An example is the opening of the lower Fraser River Chum Salmon fishery that coincides with the very damaged Thompson River Steelhead run. Why risk the incidental kill of such a sensitive run of fish just to put a few pounds of low priced Chum Salmon on the market (likely international market)? Sport fishing in BC has a huge potential for large revenues for multiple communities. Poor commercial fisheries management will spoil the future of fishing in BC and will hurt many families and communities who rely on businesses related to fishing and the spin-off of tourism. Look at DFO's management on the east coast. How can't we learn from those mistakes? In part, I'm glad to see more officers working in the field but they need to start focusing on those who hurt this precious resourse on the large scale and don't pick on me when I'm standing knee deep with a fly rod on the Skeena river. For goodness sake, DFO needs to get their priorities straight and focus on conservation instead of politics. I also have a beef with the number of fish that Fishing Lodges take in a season. These lodges need to charge double the rates if their guests want to keep fish. Catch and release of Halibut, Coho and Chinook should be manditory for Lodge guests unless they pay hefty fees. Lodges also promote keeping all the largest fish caught. Not allowing the largest fish to reach the spawning grounds is counter productive to overall genetic development. Many people also don't understand that very large Halibut are always spawning females. Does DFO promote education regarding these topics? Do fishing lodge guests know that. Are their signs at government docks about these conservation techniques? Do the regulations spell these concepts out? Do you need 10,000 employees in Ottawa to think of ideas like that? I don't think so.