I was at the Lac Bellevue meeting in 2016 organized by Ray Makowecki of the AFGA and retired fisheries biologist, and Ray Danyluk former MLA for that riding. It was pretty much as you described, Drewski: 300 people upset with how fisheries were being managed. I wrote about it in 2017:
"Are We Underutilizing Our Walleye", as well as what I perceive to be the overall problem:
"Shifting Away from Consumptive Use".
There is a considerable backlash to current fisheries management policy coming not only from anglers, many of whom have more knowledge about the lakes they fish than the local gov. biologists, but also from former gov. fisheries biologists and managers who do not like seeing how the interests of anglers are no longer being considered in so-called management decisions. As one biologist described the situation, the current gov. bios are more academics than fisheries managers. As you said, all these latest webinars and survey did was satisfy a requirement for "public consultation."