AMEN BROTHER AMEN!

The only way to responsibly harvest our fish resources is SELECTIVELY. The indiscriminate nature of gillnets has decimated and continues to pummel threatened runs of fish up and down the west coast. Just look at how much forgone harvest opportunity on hatchery fish the netters have to give up due to the impacts they have on wild fish. We all (netters AND recreational anglers) would benefit from reduced impacts on wild fish.... much more likelihood of maintaining longer seasons for both camps under that scenario.

But none of that matters at all until we can get this Hogan ruling reversed. That's the whole flaw in netters thinking that "hatchery = wild" will actually benefit them. It may in the short term... but over the long haul, that sort of thinking is doomed to failure. Why can't these pinheads figure out that sustainability is the key. The most sustainable way to produce fish is naturally. The most sustainable way to fish them is selectively.

Until fish managers have the backbone to give selective harvest and natural production top priority, there is little hope that these runs can be sustained for our children and grandchildren.