Eyefish,

A Gottcha', eh? Kinda' illustrates the difference between interests (the same) and positions (different). Of course a significant part of this is about an allocation grab. I've never made any secret of that. Any time a harvested fish can be diverted from the commercial fishery to the recreational fishery, society receives a greater social and economic benefit. The best, if not only, reason I can think of for opposing the conversion of the LCR gillnet fleet to seine is that it may become even more difficult to end the commercial fishing altogether, which is the outcome that delivers the highest overall benefit to society.

So yeah, as articulate as Todd is, or can be, I'd say there's a little bit of a grudge match going on. He seems to have a thing about Gary Loomis, which is completely understandle, because as good a promoter as Gary is, he's entirely wrong on several of his key points. However, that doesn't make CCA in the NW a bad idea. It just means CCA has some clean up work to do on some CR issues.

Sg