I know Guy McMinds personally. He was very active in the establishment of the current status quo, before it went the way it is now. Decent man.

I, like you, think that the only way to really have a true "co-management" system would be one where everyone played by the same rules, and from the same playbook.

"In common with", to me means that they fish alongside us, not before us (coastal crab), or way after us (steelhead), and that we use the same rules and regs. How this got bastardized into the current situation is a travesty.