Everyone needs to remember that the fishing seasons and quotas are part of one big pie....you can't just look at one small fishery anymore and decide that there are enough fish to allow a fishery on those stocks. All of these fish come back from the ocean and in the ocean the fish are considered "mixed stocks" so the big boys who are meeting now in the "North of Falcon Process" look at the big picture and allocate harvest like a big chess board. Then when all the chessmen are in place and the board looks workable along come the tribes to sometimes scramble all the pieces again. The GH fishery is one of my personal favorites for many reasons and I hate to see the season shut down only to see massive netting. I guess that is the story all across our fisheries management today. The returning fish to the Chehalis system predicted should allow a season this year . We will see in the next couple of weeks how the chips are moved around the board.

Tomorrow in Lynnwood there is an all day meeting starting at 9am that I am sorry I cannot attend due to that darn paying job but I will certainly be getting plenty of emails in the next couple of days concerning the outcome and outlook for the 2004. I am crossing my fingers that sports anglers will get an opportunity to fish GH.