The anti American stuff has been going on since the early 80's. I had a boat back then that had a small decal of the american flag on the back. It came with the boat and I never thought anything about it. I started going up to the westside of vancouver island to salmon fish in late July early Aug every year. Everyone would sit right agsaint the rocks and mooch big horse herring for springers. I tried some of my secret methods from the sound and started nailing the biggest springers. We were trolling. After seeing this for a few days the local boats started trolling. We were catching fish after fish and all were big they were mostly catching coho. Pretty soon they started trolling across our lines and cut our DR lines as well. Whoops they said it was an accident. Went up two weeks later and on the way up a friend picked up a canadian flag decal and cover up the American flag on the back of the boat. Never had another problem. It's almost as bad if you do the same in ore with Wa plates on you truck. Heck don't dare out fish the locals anywhere