I see the folks on that other board are taking a pro-active stance to educate would-be participants about the impending blood-bath on kings that is likely to occur under WDFW's harvest rules for 2007.

If anyone is a member over there, I would offer this excerpt as a place to dig up some sound-bytes that highlight just how bad the chinook over-harvest could be if everyone keeps the kings they are legally entitled to.

The 2007 WDFW plan currently on the table is yet another sure-fire formula for over-exploitation. Think about it folks.... 501 fish for the bay comes out to a harvest rate of only 16 fish per day. Anybody out there actually believe the sport fleet is so lame that they can only muster 16 dead kings a day with hundreds of boats plying the water each day in October? Get real! I know a handful of regulars that could single-handedly blow thru those fish without blinking! That entire allocation will be bonked before we see three tide exchanges after the opening bell! Any takers on that bet?

The Mainstem Chehalis piece of the chinook retention season is only budgeting a kill rate of 21 fish per day. How quickly do you think sports will blow thru that allocation of 667 kings? With the effort we are likely to experience in GH, I give it a week max.... MAX!

Last year's harvest model underestimated exploitation by a factor of four! If that's the same model they used this year ( and that's anyone's guess because they won't divulge the model... too complex for us simpletons), what makes anyone think the result will be any different?

WDFW is obviously turning a blind eye to conservation.