All the licence-holders—the legal harvesters—left the rivers. Guess who stayed? All the poachers were given free rein. In fact, they moved into all the prime spots where the legal licence-holders were. I visited those sites in the evenings, on the weekends I've been home, and stood beside these poachers.
This is not the first year. Last year, a number of them were charged with trespassing by the RCMP. Good for the RCMP. When they went to court, the court fined them $7 for trespassing.