CORRECT!!!! And that explains, entirely, why we don't ever get what we want out of season-setting. To believe we can overcome the power of financial influence by showing up in numbers at meetings is foolishness, and anybody who's paid attention to how we get treated when we DO attend ought to understand that by now. Our only power lies in our choice to buy a fishing license. If we all quit, we'd have their ear. Until then, we'll go on funding injustice, just so we can go outside and fish.

Sport fishers comprise only 10% of the overall population. The other 90% is a mixture of people who may have differing views about a lot of things, but they all have in common that they don't care about whether anybody has the right to sport fish for salmon, because they are not personally interested. Worse, these folks have absolutely ZERO understanding of the conservation issues surrounding salmon and steelhead these days, so as far as they're concerned, more salmon for sale in the marketplace is only a good thing. This is what makes it so easy for commercial lobbyists to convince legislators to uphold the status quo and prioritize commercial fisheries. 1 voter in 10 is not going to tip many elections....