While the front-page coverage (CR Mirror, 23/02) of the demonstration in front of MP John Duncan’s office in Courtenay by anglers protesting the continuation of the halibut allocation policy was most welcome, the same cannot be said about the column by Paul Rudan on the same issue.
Other than our agreement that commercial halibut quota owners should fish it or lose it, the rest of his opinion piece was consistent with the headline – “half baked.”
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