Originally Posted By: Lifter99
Speaking of no big boy pants, I remember a few years ago, AG Grossman and Ron Warren saying WDFW was going to legally challenge the Skokomish tribe when the tribe claimed they had exclusive right to fish the Skokomish River and WDFW closed it to NI sportfishing. The State said they had a good case. What happened to that? Nothing since. Why didn't WDFW open the fishing and take it to court? A little off subject but another example of no action by the Department. Is it WDFW or someone higher up telling them not to take action on these different issues?


Lifter, not to undermine GB's explanation, I have felt that WDFW doesn't push the Skok issue because if they do, the Skok Tribe and its allies will simply not permit ANY marine salmon recreational fishery in PS. And it looks like WDFW will sacrifice anything else to preserve even a piddling amount of NT recreational fishing in PS. That is, it's deemed more important to give the big boat salt water NT fishermen one day on the water in PS than it is to preserve an entire gamefish season on a river that is tributary to PS. Susewind and Warren won't admit that, but the Department's actions say that.