Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ship AOPS

[Colin Parkinson]

Why the hell isn't it "Cod Cops"!?

Salmon and other commercially harvested fish species enter chat. Also lends itself well to DFO being called "Fish and ships"

 

[Lumber]

No cod?

"Too soon, Bud."

-Newfoundland (probably)

 

[Underway]

Yes they do; it's called scouting.

Edit: just noticed @Baz beat me to it.

I'm going to start another threat for this discussion tomorrow (just got in from work iand I'm gassed). We can tear it apart there as I have some rather chauvanistic opinions on the issue, lol

Yea it really frustrated me when RJOC would say "what the heck are you doing?" when we would hail vessels in the MARLOAs who were either not shining on AIS, or their IMO didn't match their AIS data... like... it's literally in the standing OPTASK RMP.

MCDV that intercepted a Chinese "civilian" ship in the arctic had a converstion with RJOC went something like this:

MCDV - Hey that Chinese ship you told us about, we found it.
RJOC - OK don't talk to it, we want you to observe
MCDV - To late we hailed them, they told us they were here basically to spy on us
RJOC -WTF? Why would you do that?
MCDV - Its our job dumbass

At least in my head cannon the conversation went like that. From what I was told the Chinese ship was super open on what they were doing.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

My encounters with Chinese entities have all been super open about what they are doing. They really don’t care what we think about them and they are relentless.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

My encounters with Chinese entities have all been super open about what they are doing. They really don’t care what we think about them and they are relentless.

Almost like they have a clear cut defense policy and white paper to inform their actions......

 

[dimsum]

Almost like they have a clear cut defense policy and white paper to inform their actions......

I wouldn’t say that…

 

[SeaKingTacco]

Almost like they have a clear cut defense policy and white paper to inform their actions......

No, they just really don’t care what Canada thinks of them. We are a non-entity.

 

[KevinB]

No, they just really don’t care what Canada thinks of them. We are a non-entity.

It isn’t just that Canada is a non-entity, it’s that Canada acts like a non-entity - even back when it was a major middle power.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

It isn’t just that Canada is a non-entity, it’s that Canada acts like a non-entity - even back when it was a major middle power.

No- irritatingly, we think we matter. But, we won’t put any actual work into mattering.

 

[KevinB]

No- irritatingly, we think we matter. But, we won’t put any actual work into mattering.

I don’t think they are mutually exclusive which is even more annoying