Clearly the answer to all the fish problems along with crabbing and shrimping, is to just shut all NON commercial and NON native american harvest down for two years, with the option of shutting it down for more if the problems aren"t straightened out.

By the end of the first three weeks the state including the WDFW would be screamin and by the end of three months the federal government would have the tribal fishing problem worked out.

There would be such a financial calamity in this state the sports fishing crowd could tell both the state and the feds how to handle it.

Since that is not gonna happen maybe the next best thing would be for all the really good fishermen (the ones that catch the most all the time) should just quit fishin all together, an let the inept such as myself who rarely hook up, fish, but have to release all fish. (the hookin mortality rate would go way down,.... lot less caught, lot less released)

The fish cops would know they didn't have to worry about my crowd overharvesting so they could spend all their time writing tickets for snaggin!



herm