GBL, again you offer up no solutions. Habitat restoration is a piece of the puzzle and is something that is an acheivable goal, we need to take care of our problems in our back yard first. The issue's that you bring up are out of most of our control.

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but I do want the State and our government to acknowledge that the commercial interests need to be number 3 in line for those fish. 1-river returns, 2-sportsman, 3-commercial fishing


In Washington state the commercial interests are already last in line behind sportsmen. In Puget Sound King Salmon, Coho, and Sockeye are managed for recreational use. As such you don't see any gillnet or sein fisheries until chum are present. If you had your choice which ones would you have them target?


Edited by JoJo (12/31/07 11:14 PM)