Salmon Troller,

you said...
“We all know that the management of the fisheries is much more complex than it needs to be there is either enough fish to fish them or there is not.”

I can not disagree more with that statement. It is complex exactly because it needs to be for conservation reasons and to satisfy legal requirements. I can not believe that any sane person would choose to manage fisheries this way if it was not absolutely necessary.

you said....
"I am a curious if you were at these meetings or if some one from the RFA was and if so witch group of sportsmen do you represent, the ones who go out on charter boats or their own boats, or do you represent the charter boats and guides who make a living on the sportsmen’s seasons. There is a big difference between the two."

No representative from RFA is currently playing a role in the in-season management of coastal salmon quotas. I personally try to keep track of what is going on through contacts. As for the representation, the charter owners represent themselves on the local stuff. On national issues, the big picture stuff, sometimes charters are having us represent them, issue by issue. I am not hearing a lot of complaints from the private boats fishing on the coast, certainly not enough to be involved in it. The customers on the charter boats provide the most participation in that fishery and the WCBA is pretty good at advocating for what their customers want..

you said....
"THE WCBA DOSNT REPRESENT THE SPORTSMAN THEY USE THE SPORTSMANS QUOTA FOR THERE GAIN"

They may not represent all sport fisherman, but as I said, they are good at advocating for what the sport fisherman on their boats want.

you said...
"To expect us to believe there will be a surplus of these wild fish at this time of the season will not fly, especially on a year where they have so far this season missed the fish counts by 200,000 springers and lake Washington sockeye by 85,000 fish. The don’t have a clue whats out there this year. A portion of those kings they just gave away where Grays Harbor fish why not increase opportunity in the river."

They fish on paper fish. There is no way to predict if the forecasts are accurate or not at this point. Besides, they are not saying that their is a surpluss of wild fish. They are expecting the same number to be killed through retention with the smaller quota as they did with release mortality for the larger quota. If they were talking about raising a bag limit I may agree with you about switching those fish for more river opportunity. I don’t think it is reasonable to expect ocean quota to be given up or not traded when they need to make moves to maximize the fisheries