NWP,

The problem withthat is this: The vast majority of existing CCA members are of the opinion that gillnetting is what is responsible for limiting our fish runs and fishing opportunities. They also think that they can end tribal fisheries.

A handful of CCA members here can't even be convinced to spend five minutes researching the problems to see that there is almost no commercial fishing even going on around here in inner Puget Sound and that it has very little bearing on fish runs...how do you expect a few educated people to convince your "thousands", especially when they aggressively do NOT want to be educated?

So long as the vast majority of the CCA thinks that, then that's what the CCA will focus on, and the CCA will enjoy very limited success, for several reasons.

First, even if they did get a "win" (remember, a win is a win, right?), they won't win jack around here in Puget Sound...commercial fishing just doesn't have much to do with our miniscule run sizes.

Second, the CCA will have virtually no impact on tribal fisheries, period.

Why would I want to waste my time and energies? On the flipside, why would anyone else? Vast numbers of members advocating for the wrong things won't help, and in fact may detract from the work being done on the actual issues here in Puget Sound.

Fish on,.,.,.

Todd