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Action Alert-Next Step we need your support by no later than March 22nd
A huge thank you!!!!! To all of you for supporting us on the 2.5 year WDFW Commission process on changing the old WDFW Commission Hatchery Policy called Hatchery Reform and removing HSRG language. I am not sure how many of you understand how game changing this is! This is the biggest positive salmon news in decades! WE WON!
We have one more issue that we need your help with one more time to jump this last hurdle in the HSRG process. It is removed, but need to make sure that the SEPA process moves forward allowing the plan to advance to the next step. If you agree you need to respond that you are satisfied that the Determination of Nonsignificance (DNS) is correct for DNS 21-008: ANADROMOUS SALMON AND STEELHEAD HATCHERY POLICY C-3624 which SUPERSEDES POLICY C-3619.
This is critical in order for the WDFW and Northwest Treaty Tribes to start work on the Co-manager Hatchery Policy where each river system will be evaluated to see where hatchery production can be increased. You can take the easy road, read the document we have pre-written for you, and hit the send button, or you can write your own comments and email it to: SEPAdesk2@dfw.wa.gov
WDFW sent out a document called Determination of Nonsignificance DNS 20-045. Please click on the link below and read it. The document also has other ways to contact them to send your letter. We need all the emails and comments we can get, as this is a numbers game. There are going to be other organizations trying to stop this next step from moving forward and sending out their comments against it. Its important that you send this out ASAP!
Click Here to read the document
HSRG was an automatic perpetual funding machine for the salmon recovery “industry” as it provided a constant influx of funding by using the name of salmon recovery. It also provided language to sue to shut down hatchery production from all the while, adding additional cuts to our hatchery production output. Lawsuits take needed money away from our hatcheries when paid out to the ones suing. The problem being is that the many organizations put funding first and fish second. This is used as a crisis management tool. No crisis-no funding. There is no money in recovered fisheries.
Ilwaco’s Butch Smith and I have been working non-stop on removing this for 5-6 years. Many, many sleepless nights to get here. WDFW Commissioner Don McIsaac was the key driver to getting us to this point. He was former Pacific Fisheries Management Council’s Executive Director for 16 years which is the highest fisheries seat in our West Coast. He understands salmon better than just about anyone. He took the job as a WDFW Commissioner to bring back our salmon runs and rebuild our hatcheries and production where it makes sense. Larry Carpenter and the rest of the commissioners deserve our thanks too. We really appreciate what they did. They voted for change, that in the following years will make North of Falcon easier by having more fish to split up. So next time you see them please thank them.
We cannot end this without thanking our tribal brothers and sisters that were key in getting us to this point. I personally want to thank Lorraine Loomis, Justin Parker, Lisa Wilson, GI James, Jason Gobin, Scott Schuyler, Mike Crewson, Tom Chance, Ray Fryberg, Randy Kindley, and many other tribal members, for reaching across the line to build a coalition with PSA and Coastal fishers that led us to this huge victory! Without getting this done we would have continued down the same death spiral of massively decreased hatchery production. We agree that increased hatchery production is needed to get us all back fishing. Please respond today and forward this to your family members and friends. We need massive responses to get to the next level so that the anti-hatchery groups do not kill this as they are working against us. Thank you!
Sincerely,
Ron Garner
President
Puget Sound Anglers State Board


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