Mr. Vanden Brulle,

Thank you for taking the time to state some of the particulars of the Washington Trout position on this subject. It should be easy to appreciate the difficulties involved in providing a statement describing the position of an organization subject to the skepticism you have encountered from the sport fishing community. I hope many others here appreciate your efforts as I do.

We may disagree on many things and agree on some others but without comprehension of one another's viewpoints it is impossible to understand or resolve the differences.