havenfun:

Sorry to burst your bubble but they sure as heck didn't but back all the commercial boats or licenses up north. They did buy back a few purse seiners that were promptly replaced by fewer but larger boats. One man owns the vast majority of the B.C. commercial purse seine fleet. He owns B.C. packers Overweita foods and a ton of other stuff apparently including politicians.

The B.C. gov. did limit coho interception on the west side of Vancouver Island and chinook fisheries in other areas. In part due to the success of recent Canada.U.S. salmon treaty negotiations.