I guess I shall finally chime in on this issue...

This past weekend, I was driving from Sekiu to points south and my route took me right through downtown Quilcene.

There in the parking lot of the local school, there were 3 enforcment vehichles and 3 agents discussing whatever they were discussing.

Down south at Hoodsport, there were 2 agents (I should know as they came to lend me a hand after I was stung by a wasp, passed out and fell face first into those metal grate walkways over the fishways...and I had just stopped to take a peak at the scene).

Anyways, within 30 minutes are two terminal fisheries in which snagging and just all out blatant poaching occurs yet over here in Puget Sound we are dealing with not enough enforecement and our wild ESA-listed Puget Sound chinook are being targeted and poached!

IMHO, the least that could be done would be to close the Quilcene and move a couple of those officers over here when our rivers are filled with wild ESA-listed chinook.

It is much easier for one officer to patrol a closed river then for even a dozen officers to patrol an open river that resembles a zoo such as the Quilcene!