Grandpa,

Wasn't it just last year that PSA and WT got together to limit the tribal chinook fisheries in and around Puget Sound? I'd think that the powers that be in PSA know exactly who the WT people are and what their agenda is.

WT, along with the WSC and TU, also collected thousands of pages of information about the CR tangle net fishery and wrote countless letters to the managers about the ESA violations that not only took place last year, but are going to take place again this year if things don't change.

Why in the heck do you think the commercials are fishing far less than last year? Because many groups gathered the facts, made the calculations, and wrote letters. WT was one of the groups that did threaten to sue NMFS if things didn't change from last year.

In response to the hard work done by several folks in several organizations, the potential ESA impacts of a tangle net fishery were re-evaluated and the season was shortened considerably.

Where were all the sportsmen then? Don't assume that just because a group is doing something that you don't like that they are always doing something you don't like, and especially don't assume that they have a hidden agenda that is designed to screw you out of what you want.

If that was WT's intention, I doubt that the PSA State Board would have been working with them over the last couple of years, nor would have other fishing or fishing related groups.

Fish on...

Todd.