The reasons given were

1. they dont respond well to change they don't understand

2. they like the current system where the department takes volunteers for fisheries without a full fleet. I think that this may be due to internal politics within the fleet, a pecking order.

2. the netters have what they term "drift rights". While there is nothin legal about them, there is a gentlemans agreement about who is authorized to fish the most fishy locations and there is actually money exchanged buying into a drift right.
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Mike Gilchrist