geoduck

Fist of all I think the most important ones to be fair to are the fish..
Notice in my plan I did not eliminate any harvest opportunity or even lower the number of fish produced.
Under stand that right now the system is totally unfair leaning way to far to the do anything you want kill anything you want side.

I assume your biggest objection is to the elimination of the Wind river spring chinook fishery??
I know this is a hypothetical but help me out here and offer some alternatives. if you think i go too far to the oppisite side of where we are now help me find the balance.

My hope is that exersizes like this may help us form some common ground that maybe some day we will get to use.

How about this.. use a net pen at the mouth of the wind river to raise spring chinook and maintain the fishery at the mouth and still keep the uper river free from the non native fish?

Also I understand your concerns about habitat but that is a seperate issue and by the way there is a ton of habitat work being done down here in southwest washington.