You need to stop and think about what your saying. You want to bring PETA into action in order to protect a fishery for the sake of improving recreational angling? Those guys are fanatically anti-angling. An onsite protest would do nothing more than target some poor guy whose out there harvesting within a set quota for whitefish. Chances are pretty good that a mesh size and depth restriction will be in place to reduce incidental bycatch. Commercial fishing recieves it's allocation of the fishery after recreational harvest is accounted for. If you want a cause to yell and scream about why not begin promoting catch and release angling regardless of available quotas? Or how about educating people to release fish that are representative of upper size classes. A huge portion of our provinces angling future is in the hands of us anglers so lets stop pointing the finger at commercial and domestic netting and start accepting our own role in sustainable fishing.
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