Thank you. That's a good question.
The reason I'm advocating for more closures is.... As I mentioned, right now, it's so wide open across a vast amount of area that DFO cannot effectively monitor. In order to know what's being caught, they need to interview people and approach fishers, which you can't do.
To me, by putting everybody into a closed area in an inlet that groups people together who are fishing, DFO can easily stick within those inlets, produce the results it needs and get the catch allocations, because not everybody out there is truthful and honest. There's a lot of bycatch. We're talking so much bycatch that the smaller fish are dying from mortalities such as being wounded when they're hooked, dragged around by their mouth and bleeding. An orca eats them, or they just die from bleeding out.
Even with all of our wanting to reduce.... When first nations erect fisheries, it's a holistic approach. We need the habitat taken care of, along with the water temperatures and drought levels. The fish don't stand a very good chance anyway. One more step to help is knowing exactly what's being caught and reported.