SciGuy, Somethingsmellsfishy, and Grandpa2, your cynical posts are well founded. Of course the farmed fish are not a health issue! Of course "scientists" delivered what's "paid for" Recall what was reported by scientists paid by the tabaco industry. Recall the scare put into the public by rotten info about Washington state apples. It's ugly!

And of course the commercial netters put dollars where it can help their causes, done both eithically and unethically (and perhaps illegally). They have certainly felt the financial sting of farmed salmon in the market place! BTW, they also pay a lot for lobbyists and contribute to electing politicians who will side with the continued unnecessary killing of wild fish in the Columbia system.

I hope many of you will go to the upcoming meetings in Olympia about the springer quota proposals. If there isn't a good showing, the commercials will get the bigger slice of the wild fish pie (Fed ESA impact %). Skip a couple TV shows that night and be there.