I'm sure you guys will correct me if I'm wrong, but I read that they are retiring a certain number of licenses as well as boats.

Although I don't have facts sitting in front of me, its my understanding that fish stocks in Canada have benefitted from buyouts in the commercial industry.

Finally, I've come to the conclusion that the commercials have much more political clout than we sport fisherman and they have been significantly more effective at getting their way so to speak. So even if the price is seems high, taking some number of commercials out of the picture (voluntarily) is still better than doing nothing.