From the article:
The Oct. 1 opening balances the interests of all anglers in the region, said Ron Warren, fisheries manager for the Region Six office of the state Department of Fish & Wildlife in Montesano.
“Any time you have one particular user group or one group of fishers going in front of another group, there’s always going to be a sentiment of reduced opportunity or reduced harvest,” he said.
“We had a diverse representation of fishermen at all of our meetings ... and the majority actually favored the Oct. 1 opening,” he said.
Did I miss something at a couple of these meetings?
Was this written testimony? Perhaps DFW just hears they want. Ron, Phill, or whoever doesn't represent the working class or retired residents I've met in the area.
My experience has been that sportfisher folks have been in favor of the chinook jacks- early fish opportunity while a minority of charters and Willipa crowd wants the chinook adults.
I joined CCA just to give my say in at the Federal level. I've heard time and time again how DFW Staff doesn't want to be micro managed in this fishery. Well, it's about time the fishery was actually managed. I don't know everthing about how many fish got traded to the Canadian fisheries in repayment for the Alaskan take; or how much of our impacts were shifted down to MA1.
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