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Originally posted by Steelheadman:
The article made it sound like it is okay to fish for endangered salmon when in fact you can only keep fin clipped salmon or threatened salmon as defined by the ESA. I get mad when I read this crap. I feel like writing a letter to the ignorant author but it would be like banging my head on the wall.
We sports fish most selectively among the user groups, but we too have our impacts. And they are NOT small.

The bulk of the harvest is done by nets which by and large do NOT fish selectively. Even when the non-tribal nets fish "selective" gear they are still killing 40% of everything released (if and when they are released).

Of course the tribes who are allocated the lion's share of ESA fishing impacts kill 100% of the ESA-listed fish they catch. Surprise...

Guess the author wasn't such an idiot after all. Very well done piece IMHO.
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