I have had several conversations with Jim Buck on the phone over the years. My first one started when he read an email that slammed him pretty bad. I put my home phone number in the email and he called about 30 seconds after I sent it to yell at me. Since then I ahve found Jim to be very knowledgeable about fishing issues and more importantly about how politics work in Olympia. He is not someone I always agree with since he tends to support commercial fishing but he is someone worth talking to.

With that said,. I am trying to discover what the motive is for WDFW making the request of NMFS. The request is some 26 pages long and obviously took some time to prepare. The document is full of graphs and "scientific" documentation to support their request to raise mortality levels three fold.