To put it simply, you cannot catch what you don't count, you can't count what you don't see and you can't see what you don't look for. Alaska is identifying its fish stocks. They have more boots on the ground, with people walking streams, and drones and boats looking.
Quite often in northern B.C., our fish get identified by commercial fishermen. They tell DFO, and then DFO struggles to have a budget to get a boat out to look. The stock assessment here is bad—