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Originally posted by w. coyote:
I don't know if any one has read the little rag the PSA has put out but they are really bashing the C&R mandate. I have read several of their issues because they drop them at our shop and recently the person who writes the casting in the wind (should be farting in the wind.) Really ripped into the wild stealhead coalition (special interest group). From my perspective the PSA is only interested in whats good for them and not what's good for the resource. I will recomend that any one on this board who really belives in the value of protecting wild steelhead not donate or join the PSA.
I'm the author of that article and I stand by what I said. Firstly, I never even mentioned the WSC in that article. I didn't name any groups or persons. This has been hashed to death here on this board already but I'll say it again, this new mandate will not do any good. The runs will continue to decline long after they've closed all rivers to sportfishing and only the Tribes can net. You honestly don't find it infuriating that the commission you all were praising for making the decision is trying to allow a 200% increase in wild steelhad bycatch in the Columbia River system? Do you really think the commission or WDFW actually cares about the resource? If anything, this proves my point. They pass yet another restriction on the sportsmen (the largest economic contributers of the resource and by far the least damaging to the resource) while at the same time, while people are praising them for the decision, they stab you in the back.