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Originally posted by Salmo g.:
I'm not ready to accept that commercial gillnetting where 2/3 of the catch is ESA listed salmon and steelhead is inevitable. This fishery is unjustifiable due to its impacts to bycatch. The targeted hatchery spring chinook are still available to other fisheries without the lower Columbia gillnet fleet.

The lower Columbia gillnet fishery is anachronistic, unnecesary to make biolgoical, economic, and social use of the chinook fishery public resource. If you've read my posts over the years, you'll know that I'm not opposed to commercial fishing; I'm not even opposed to gillnets. But I am opposed to stupid gillnet fisheries like this that are not biologically, economically, nor socially justifiable.

As fish advocates and conservationists, we owe it to ourselves and our children to continue to pressure the WDFW Commission to rescind this mistaken fishery.
Amen Brother Amen
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