Amen. Unless it's a better deal, NO DEAL.

I think the fallacy of the notion of "Co-management" of a resource by competing interests has finally been brought to light. It was inevitable that this would happen the first time there weren't enough available impacts to support both interests. This season has reaffirmed (in my mind) two things I have long thought:

1. Co-management only "works" as long as everybody gets to play, and when it does "work," the outcomes usually don't look like products of genuine concern for conservation (let alone recovery), on either side.
2. Yet again, too many impacts have been allocated to mixed stock ocean fisheries, mostly north of our border. Things won't improve until that changes.