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Originally posted by AuntyM:
Smalma,

So are you telling us that all the money and energy spent by WDFW testing selective fishing methods, and NMFS's concerns with gill net harvest IMPACTS on threatened species in the columbia are not indicative of a problem with gill nets? They sure fooled me!

Seems to me that removing as many hatchery fish as we can from the fish population without the needless slaughter of endangered fish is a goal WT and everyone should share. I was encouraged by the latest testing of purse seine's on the Columbia.

At no point have I advocated a larger part of the allocation pie for sport fishers. I am of the opinion that northwest consumers have a right to the same hatcery fish I do, via commercial harvest. I would rather there be a market for those fish and fewer farmed fakes. laugh
Auntym, when or if they do come up with a way to kill fewer listed fish, its not like the state will lower the percentage of listed fish the netters will be able to kill, they will kill the same amount and take more hatchery fish, this isnt a conservation effort on the part of the states, its all about harvest and removing excess hatchery fish.