I sit as a director on the B.C. Crab Fisherman Association. I've been a proxy rep for the crab advisory for five years. The principle of owning a licence to have a vested interest worked very well in the beginning; it has just evolved poorly as fewer and fewer fishermen are licence-holders. Now we're really stepping into that area where people not fishing have the advisory boards. In the beginning, it was a good policy to have vested interest there. Now we haven't had any regulation as that has evolved.
On February 5th, 2019. See this statement in context.