Samla: I think that you are, as usual, way more right than wrong, but the harvest of in river chums in no way reflects angler effort. Most of us will seldom if ever keep a chum, but the rivers are full of anglers when the chums are in. They provide a major recreational opportunity that should be protected.

We know the gill nets kill lots of seabirds. And I suspect they are very harmful to the low numbers of Hood Canal coho that still try to return. I hope someone can stir up the Audubon society to raise hell about the gill nets killing almost 8 % of all the nesting murres in Puget Sound in a two week period.