Sportsman aren’t the problem. Keep drinking that kool-Aid and living in that delusion. We don’t even crack the top ten for reasons fishing sucks.

1. Over harvest in the ocean
2. Birds eating smolt
3. Predators eating adults
4. In river commercial fisheries (tribal and state)
5. Fish passage being blocked (dams and other blockages)
6. Bycatch from domestic and foreign trawlers.
7. Logging
8. Commercial and residential development
9. Poor waste water management
10. Unfavorable ocean conditions


And probably a few others before you get to sportsman.

We could take care of the majority of those problems with a little effort and money…but shutting down in river recreational anglers is the laziest and cheapest “solution”.