Aunty

The point is this:

We need to change our laws if we want to continue to have a productive fishery for sport fishermen. It's the "double standards" that are on our state books that are guiding the down fall of our states fishery!

Nothing, I repeat nothing will ever change until we change the rules that are guiding our rule makers and framing their decisions. I am not against the tribes, nor am I against the people who guide for a living! That's what I did and I have no regrets. Some of my questions were about "quotas", and some are about contradicting laws and rules that are guiding our decision makers.

I have no problem with the Indians guiding, but I do a problem with how our law is written! The way it reads to me now, it’s a double standard! Don't forget that I worked on a special committee when the WDF &WDG made the switch over to WDFW. For months we all went to meeting along with a group of state attorneys and tried to combine the RCW together to correct many of the problems that we are now seeing. Apparently we didn't achieve what we originally had set out to do.

If enough people can see the hypocrisy that remains, it just might be possible to get some of these stupid laws changed. Change is what is now needed to correct our fishing problems and I will continue to do my best to inform the people of what I believe needs to be changed. It's mainly because of these stupid laws that our recovery efforts and sport fishing opportunities continued to be misdirected.

I hope this answers your question! There are no surprises laying in the dark. . . well, maybe just one or two!


Cowlitzfisherman