On some kind of email list, from WDFW.....here's what I got....I only cut part of it....

"WDFW NEWS RELEASE
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
600 Capitol Way North, Olympia, WA 98501-1091
http://wdfw.wa.gov/

February 5, 2008

Contact: Susan Yeager, (360) 902-2267

Decision on spring chinook allocation
for Columbia River delayed until Friday

OLYMPIA - The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission has scheduled a conference call Friday (Feb. 8) to take action on new allocation guidelines for the Columbia River spring chinook fishery.

Members of the public interested in hearing their discussion can do so via speaker phone at 5 p.m. at Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) offices in Olympia, Montesano, Mill Creek and Vancouver, Wash.

Addresses for those offices are available at http://wdfw.wa.gov/reg/regions.htm on WDFW's website. No public comments will be taken at Friday's meeting.

The conference call was scheduled after commissioners split 4-4 on a proposal made by Commissioner Conrad Mahnken at a public meeting Saturday (Feb. 2) that would change allocation guidelines for this year's spring chinook fishery on the lower Columbia River in favor of recreational fisheries.

Commissioner Chuck Perry was absent from that meeting, but all nine members of the commission are expected to participate in the conference call. The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission is also scheduled to take up the same issue Feb. 8 in Salem. "



Gillnetters must be concerned that "sports" in getting as much attention and maybe a "larger piece of the pie"!!!!!!