I'm shocked that after this many years of British Columbia harvesters raising the alarm bells on this, the department is so slow to react and has such a poor grasp of the actual problem to start addressing it.
Earlier, you mentioned that you're doing “staged” work to move quickly where possible. Recommendation 2 of the report was:
That based on the principle that fish in Canadian waters are a resource for Canadians (i.e. common property), no future sales of fishing quota and/or licences be to non-Canadian beneficial owners based on the consideration of issues of legal authority, and international agreement/trade impacts.
Has any action been taken on recommendation 2. If not, why not?