I’m curious what others might think about the Fisheries new policy on sportsman releasing Nooksack wild Coho. This year’s regulations for the Nooksack are two hatchery fish per day and you must release all native fish. Personally I’m all for helping native/wild fish but I am very confused with how the Fisheries Department is regulating this river. The tribe is fishing from Sunday at 12:01 AM to Friday at 4:00 PM in river, which allows very little time for “protected” fish to migrate up river unharmed. There is also an on going commercial fishery in Bellingham Bay. So I’m wondering if the Fisheries Department is so concerned with protecting the Native Coho why in God’s name would they allow this sort of commercial fisheries? I would think that if they wanted to protect these fish the commercial schedule might be cut back to three or four days per week and not the approximately six days they have now. It seems to me that over the last three or four years the sportsman and fish keep getting the shorter end of the stick on this system. As of last year we also couldn’t keep any Fall Chinook yet the Indian’s were having an in river targeting fisheries specifically for them. I was catching fish with net marks all over them that I had to release. This year is the same thing. Yesterday I hooked five Chinook; some fin clipped, but had to let them go. This whole thing just doesn’t make since to me. Are we and the fish getting screwed by the Fisheries Department or what?