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  1. All that being said can a standard 16’ hyde or clack hold enough gear for three night camping trip and still row well?

    depends on how many old fat guys are along for the trip? and how much beer they bring along? lol.

    can't speak for the brands you list but my sled rows and tracks well fully loaded. draws a bit more sure. only issue is of course less room to wander around on deck.

  2. cool. witnessed some of that first hand, during construction leading up to the previous summer olympics there.

    the planning and coordination involved boggles the mind. as do the costs. that project was also heavy on equipment and tools...lots of things are still done much more by hand and manually. some quality and safety standards [in some cases] are not the same as here.

    bottom line however...when china wanna git 'er dun, they git 'er dun.

     

     

  3. How many studies does it take on anything to make government act?

    honestly dude?

    ask the average 'bye from nfld about the cod fishery collapse and the moratorium.

    the decline began a long time before it collapsed. there was complelling scientific evidence as to the root cause [bottom trawling] for years before. dfo finally does manage to get a few things right occasionally.

    but

    the lack of funding to adequately patrol the 200 mile limit and the lack of balls on the part of the ruling feds at the time to take on the huge international consortium of mega trawling harvesters that caused the problem in the fisrt place because, well, it wouida been a lot of dough to spend and the other side has deeper pockets that the feds had the appetite to tax the entire country for to bail out da 'byes on da rock. and, well they occasionally made port in st. john's and bought fuel. so nfld, ya know, kinda sorta benefited.

     

    so the answer is...

    when the wild salmon stocks actually collapse, the feds will but a moratorium on fishing. for canadians. in canadian waters.

     

    based on historical performance, i am in no way optimistic that the federal goverment will lift a goddam finger for wild salmon unless it became the #1 cross-country election issue.

    or the international community put pressure on the gov't.

    or if famous movie stars and the psychotic one-legged wives of aging rock stars showed up and organized and staged protests and international publicity campaigns.

     

    oh, and btw?

    now the feds have opened the inshore waters of nfld to commercial shrimp fishing to re-employ former cod fisherman.

    the favoured method of harvest?

     

    bottom trawling.

     

    wow.

    where's me rum...

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