We're finding that DFO doesn't use universal rules across the country, and even in regions they may have a different rule in Nova Scotia from what they have in Newfoundland and Labrador, where I'm from. I find it a bit odd and irritating to some degree that they would do it that way. I suppose it's a bit irritating for fishermen when they can look at neighbouring provinces being able to use a larger vessel, which I would think would be much safer, rather than being restricted in size because of simply being in Newfoundland and the rules being different there than they are anywhere else.
Do you think it would be safer for fishermen to be in a larger vessel or to be restricted to a smaller vessel simply because the policy states that's the one they should be using?