One thing that is disturbing is that this yearly gill netting ritual occurs right at the mouth of Hamm Creek. The County, local businesses, and volunteer citizens groups have spent millions of dollars in land aquisition and hundreds of hours in labor restoring the creek buffers of Hamm Creek in hope to improve the tiny coho run that is struggling to survive. All which appears to be for not. I just don't understand why the volunteers, politicians, and big businesses who have contributed to the rehabilitation of the creek aren't getting angry to? Why does it appear that the only people who are disgruntled are the people on the board? Why the blind eye from the public?


BD
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"It makes no sense to regulate salmon habitat on land while allowing thousands of yards of gill nets to be stretched across salmon habitat in the water"

John Carlson, Gubernatorial Contender, Sept. 2000 speech at the Ballard Locks