I'm new to fishing in BC and I find it rather ironic that you need a law degree to understand all the rules, with specific details for all the species and sizes that change for each rivers or even sections of rivers and so forth and then lots of morons like this go around snagging and no one is controlling.
Seriously if you are not checking the Vedder in fall what are you checking? one officer doing a pass of the Vedder during the weekend can probably make up his entire month salary in fines and if he does a pass every weekend it would start deterring people from using those techniques.
Case reports... they take a long time... as I'm finding out right now...
In all honestly, a couple tickets is probably a weeks worth of work, they just don't have enough officers around to do it, and not enough funding to hire more officers.
Most CO's are dealing with the thousands of bear calls they get per year.
Most DFO are probably caught up in FN fisheries, or like I said, in the office doing paper work for the tickets they do write.
They should do what they do out here on the island.
Send out different CO's, DFO's fishing without any uniform, etc. Look just like another fisherman, keep their limit, and watch for major infractions and hand out a couple dozen tickets at a time (then they can do their office work) while they send out another officer the next week. Kinda keeps a lot of the poaching on the stamp at bay, especially since you don't know if the guy beside you is a CO/DFO or not.
Btw I should mention I knew a couple DFO on the Vedder... once a week they would go out undercover, one guy would go fishing without uniform on below a major infraction run (such as train bridge, etc) and radio up to his partner in the parking lot when a guy was leaving that had committed an infraction with description, what he did, etc. His partner would write tickets to the guys as they walked into the parking lot... so it does occur, you might just not see it. Definitely important to call as much as possible, because they build up these major infraction holes based on number of calls from certain areas or based on what they see.