Good letter Todd...hopefully the addressees will read past the first paragraph. The request by WDFW is considerably longer by some 26 pages so if they read that all the way through this letter should be a piece of cake.

The bottom line is that there is no justification for allowing increased impacts on the listed fish unless they are delisted.

Of course, the fisheries managers ignored science for years in deferrence to the commercial netters causing the initial collapse of fisheries worldwide.