I do make a statement. I NEVER buy fish at the store. I never order fish in a restaurant. I only eat fish that I catch. I do buy some prawns, scallops, and crab occasionally.

I also fly fish sometimes, cast hardware and bait fish. So do I offend flyfishers when I cast a spoon, or use bait because I am not a 100% flyfisherman? Do I care? Not really.

I do loans for folks who want to buy charter boats, dairy farmers and loggers. Am I going to have folks give me a bad time about that because of the trickle down effect that all of these industries on the salmon stocks? Last year I helped lend over $2.5 million to folks in these industries. I think that I had a hell of a lot more impact because of those activities when compared to giving $3.50 in direct benefits to the gillnetting industry.

Do you folks drink milk or consume milk products? Do you live in houses made of wood? Have you ever gone out on a charterboat or worked in that industry? How dare you! Just think of the effect that you had on the fish.

You want to talk about hypocrisy, fine. Just look in the mirror before you do.