sea_claire,

I also saw the Sekui fiasco this last fall. The state would heve been better to have let fishermen kill the first two fish they caught and quit fishing after that because the hooking mortality rate had to have been extreme. It got to where you could tell if the fish had and adipose long before you saw the fin because of how beat up they were from being previously caught.

A very simple way to remedy this is to mandate the use of a SINGLE barbless hook and to not allow anglers to remove fish with an adipose fin from the water, PERIOD!

It is amazing how effective a dowel with a hook on the end can remove a single barbless hook from a fish without touching the fish or bringing it into the boat.

The Skykomish King fishery is a great example of sportsmen standing up for themselves to get a fishery thats does not impact wild fish.

For years thousands of hatchery Kings were returning to the Sky but no one got to fish for them because no one stood up to ask for it.

Thanks to those who did because that is just one of the fisheries that sportsmen are entitled to and finally asked for and got it!

This just goes to show that we can be heard and fish without impacting the resource!