The sports shrimping seasons are just another example of shutting down thousands while a handful fish. I am so tired of it I don't know some days if I have any fight left in me. I can't remember but I think it is 4 guys get the commercial harvest around here....and then the 6 big commercial boats with Alaska licenses on them come to Edmonds and fish for the one indian woman ..7 days a week with 100 pots on each boat.

I honestly think I have a stomach ache thinking about the lopsided state of our fisheries. I am going to try to dredge up the figures for the indian harvest of the shrimp we get a total of 5 days to fish for and only 3 weekend days....What the hell is wrong with us? How did we allow ourselves to be managed out of our beloved fisheries? We argue for weeks about releasing wild steelhead and fly fishing and all that crap and yet we are being pushed out of our fisheries by the tribes and commercials. Go ahead and put your head in the sand or up your @@@ but it is so true. I just don't know if we have the fight to overcome it anymore. It seems like it just gets worse all the time. Do I sound pessimistic? Well I am.