steelspanker, this isn't "other parts of the country", and no matter what they've done elsewhere, they haven't done it here yet, and they didn't invent fisheries politics.

To use the ridiculous notion touted by a few above, but many others in the past year, that if you're not part of the "CCA Solution" than you're "Part of the Problem" will not get the actual players on their side...and, in fact, will do just the opposite.

The followers of the CCA seem to think that they are going to walk in a room and dictate down what's gonna happen, then walk back out and get in their boat and go fishing, and there will be more fish there 'cuz they said there would be.

They are in for a very, very rude awakening...very rude...and their membership is evidently going to be very surprised when...

1. commercial net fishing is not banned asap
2. the Boldt Decision is going absolutely nowhere, ever
3. "selective" commercial fishing on the Columbia will save one single fish

...and then what?

I already know what...they'll whine, complain, and their leadership will tell them it's someone else's fault...and the world will go on.

Fish on...

Todd

P.S. Jim, that list of things that the CCA is proposing is a good list of things...

"They are: Selective Fishing; Derelict Fishing Gear; Hatchery Funding and Reform; Catch Monitoring and Evaluation; Harvest Management; Nutrification of our Freshwater Ecosystems"

...but it's not like those things aren't already being done.

There are people working on the Derelict Gear programs, and they have been for decades, not just in the past 12 months. They need to be funded better, and if the CCA can help with that, then more power to 'em, but it's not like it's not already happening, and would be happening if the CCA weren't ever here..

Hatchery funding and reform is a big topic, one that every group is working on, and has been working on for years...and we'll all be working on it for years, too. What new is the CCA planning on bringing to the table?

Harvest Management? Whoever it is above who keeps saying that no one cares about it except the CCA needs to have their head checked. It's a constant concern, especially in Puget Sound, and it's directly tied in with fifty other issues...to think that no one but the CCA is concerned about it is ludicrous, and goes to show how uninformed many of the folks involved actually are.

Nutrient enhancement...you don't think Gary invented that on Cedar Creek, too, do you? It's been going on for decades, too, both here and in B.C.

Hell, I've gone and tossed carcasses several times...and believe it or not, I'm not a CCA member, and the CCA wasn't even here in Washingtong ten years ago when I started working on those programs.

Having lofty "issues" that are on the horizon of the CCA is NOT having positions and actions...anyone could start a group tomorrow and give you a list of issues, but that doesn't mean jack until they get out there and start working on them, and come up with some ideas on how to get it done...and if the attitudes displayed by the CCA members and leaders on this thread is any indication of how they are going to go about it, then they will fail miserably.