Honestly, I don't think anyone would care. In the end, it's not about protecting fish, it's about the cash. This is just a means for the state to look like they're doing something major to help, that in reality will do nothing and in the meantime, they can basically turn a blind eye to the real causes of the problem. If the state was smart, they'd ban all commercial fishing and take the tribes to federal court to get them reduced. In the end, sport fishing generates more money for the economy, creates more jobs, and the state as a whole actually makes money off it, unlike tribal and commercial fisheries that have to be subsidized. The other user groups just give them more money than sportsmen do. It's that simple. The tribes are the biggest campaign contributers to the democrat party in this state. I advise everyone on this board not to vote for a single incumbant state official. On practically every issue they've let us down.

Until sportsman can band together we'll continue to get shafted. Rather than bending over and taking it "for the good of the fish", we should stand our ground and force the state to recognize and fix the real problem. In the long run that will do far more good than not letting a sportsmen keep two fish a year or taking a fish from the water for a quick photo. As long as the state knows that we'll take whatever restrictions they throw at is, nothing will change for the better.