Isn't it something that we sports fishers have honed their skills on catch and release, endured closure after closure and have kicked in the lion's share of the money to build runs like the Chinook run on the Sky/Wallace only to get shut down again even though there are "too many" fish returning to the hatchery. So many extra hatcheery fish that they have to turn them away and dicard them. We get shut out because the tribes don't approve, because WDFW doesn't have the money for enforcement, and because Canada is ticked off with Alaska and chooses to overfish off the West Coast of Vancouver Island. Not only that but as we conserve our hearts out and volunteer and donate money to restore critical habitat on the Snohomish system so fish can recover the emphasis swings to allowing tribal gill netting and other commercial netting opportunities in the ocean and Canada.
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