Everything that Salmo points out should be a giant WAKE UP CALL for all sports fishermen! We ARE being taken advantage of and disenfranchised in our own fishery management.

One reason we keep going “around the toilet bowl” on this is because there are no real consequences to Commissioners for doing it. In fact, as I’ve said before, they take the path of least resistance. And right now that path has been “it’s better to piss off a bunch of stinking sport fishermen then challenge the tribes. Past experience has shown that NOTHING OF REAL CONSEQUENCE happens if a bunch of fishermen get pissed. The fish mafia and big shots in the sport fishing industry cover for them so it’s business as usual.
Short of a lawsuit or a mass uprising we have essentially already lost unless we stop taking shots at each other and start working to end this corrupt co-management system. That’s why we’re working so hard to end the closed door meetings at North of Falcon. It won’t fix everything, but it will expose ( or prevent further) skullduggery. And from there we can start working collectively on the rest.