I can tell you about the complexities of the regulations for recreational fishing.
Let's say you were fishing in the Margaree River. I don't know if anybody is that familiar with the Margaree River, but you could be fishing in a pool in the river that has a tributary entering it. If you caught a trout in the pool that was 14 inches, you could retain it. If you were standing 10 feet over and happened to catch that trout at the mouth of the brook, you would have to release it. If you caught five trout in that pool, that would be your limit for the day. If you went over 10 feet and caught three trout in that brook, you would be finished for the day. So you could be 20 feet over from the fellow next to you and different rules would apply.
In terms of enforcement, we have fewer and fewer enforcement officers, as far as I can see. I do know there's recruitment going on, but when we had the meeting in January, it was Leroy MacEachern who mentioned to me that he used to have a staff of 17, I think, and now he has a staff of maybe seven. There certainly have been cutbacks and cutbacks. For the enforcement officers we do have, the majority of their time seems to be taken up looking after commercial fishing. We see them on our river mostly after the lobster fishery has closed and the crab fishery has closed. Usually late in the fall we'll have some visible fisheries officers on our rivers.
Apart from that, as I mentioned, we have four fisheries officers in Cheticamp who would have their hands full just to look after the commercial fishery, let alone recreational.