When I was younger, there were more charter patrolmen. Basically a charter patrolman had some mild enforcement capabilities, but they would go around and walk in salmon streams, or if the herring were spawning, they'd go out and sound for herring. They would usually live in the area they monitored the whole year, or a better part of the year, and they would spend a good part of their career there, so they had true continuity in their view of the ecosystem. Say one year there are no prawns in an inlet for some reason and no one can understand why. Maybe the charter patrolman was there when three humpback whales were rearing and they were eating shrimp, right—
On April 26th, 2018. See this statement in context.