Good letter Spawn!

And yes, rwgav8 Please send those letters off to places like Chehalis, Centralia, Castle Rock, Toledo, Mossyrock, Packwood, and Kelso, long View and tell them if Tacoma implements their proposed fishery management plan (the FHMP) that they you won't be spending your dollars down that way anymore.

And Sinker, the people in small towns may gripe about outsiders from time to time, but they do know that their small towns and small communities will dry up without that outside tourist money coming into there community from fishermen. Believe me, they would much ratter have the fishermen drive that 40-50 miles to go fishing, then for them to have to drive 40 or 50 miles away to find enough work to pay there bills and feed their kids when the tourist money dries up. Do you really think that these people would rather give-up their local jobs or spend that much more time and efort going to work in an asphalt jungle, if you folks will bring the money to them? As long as you don't move there.....they will love your money and business!

I do known how the people feel, because I do live in one of those "small towns"! Believe me, we would rather have you folks come here and spend your money on fishing, then for us to have to drive 40 or 50 miles each day, 5 days a week, to make up for the lost of local income that fishermen bring to our small communities.

That is one hell of a good reason to take legal action against Tacoma, and each of the members of the FTC/agency committee members who are bringing this economic disaster to our local area. Before these people are allowed to implement their fish management Plan (the FHMP) any further, the people are going to demand that they perform an economic impact study to show what the economic affect of their little plan will have to our small communities. You got to ask yourself; how can these FTC members propose such actions, without first considering the economic effects and actions that "their plan" will have to the local economics that depend on the Cowlits fishery for much of there local economics. All too often these pompous people just sit around in there nice cozy little meeting rooms, eating donuts and seeping there coffee, and make up plans that will ruin the economic of communities because "they think" they know what is best for us.

It's time for us to fight back, and spawnout's got the right idea!



Cowlitzfisherman