I will publish the poundage allocations later...gotta go to the paying job now...Just one point though..Closing the season early without the data to support an early closure is ridiculous. First the state has to allocate the resource in a much more equitable way, then prove that the sports fishers get their allocation early...then we can support further measures such as cutting the daily bag limit. Until that day we do not.

The state WDFW commissioners have publicly admitted that even though they are well aware that sports fishing brings in the most money to the state economy by far they cannot and will not consider this when making their decisions. That is why a half dozen commercial non tribal shrimpers get the lions share of the shrimp in Puget Sound and that is why the commercial netters on the Columbia were allowed to catch their fish in the beginning of the run while we are always shut out early, and that is why 84% of the crab inside puget sound go to the commercials. That is why I say the commission system is broken. There is supposed to be a sportsfishing spokesman on the commission but so far we have seen commercial fishing bias from day one. I think it may start to change..As long as Gary Locke is not replaced by someone worse.( that would be a hard one)