My 1st NOF meeting also.....I made this post on the other thread...so just copied to over here:

Grrrrrrrrr, to not a very well run meeting. Fish mafia is still alive, can see about as far as the "end of thier bay boats".

WDFW "brain trust" wasted to much time, during 15 break time....that went to 40 minutes.....to try and get local gill netters...something.

If I was a "young gill netter", I'd be looking at a "postive way" to increase my livelyhood. Selective fishing, no kill, might cost dollars but pay back would be fishing time in the future.

see: http://www.wdfw.wa.gov/fish/commercial/selective/methods.htm

"Floating fish trap".....can release all non-traget fish "alive".

I'm not at all pro-gillnet.....but it seems to me that if my "livelyhood" was fishing...I'd do whatever it took. to make sure I could fish on targeted fish and release the rest alive.....
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