Sorry, but I don't see it the way you guys do. I think you just drove another wedge between the sports community. Tribes get to fish for chinook, cowboys get to fish for chinook and will probably use political pressure to get a shot on the Chehalis side, river guys get a shot at chinook, and the ones left out are the bay anglers. If you want to buffer the spawning goal, then work towards a co-manager agreed-to buffer, don't make another sport group take the only action. Whether you want to acknowledge it or not, with the price of fuel these days and the economic downturn, some of us won't by coming to the harbor to fish and spend money because chinook isn't open. And while my 1 or 2 trips per year are not a big deal to the community, when you mulitiply that by all the other anglers that won't come, it will be a big deal. Not all of us fish the rivers. I guess I'm just amazed at the effort that went into shutting down another sport user, when we seem to sit on our butts for the issues that we should really be fighting. We just can't seem to figure out how to get together.
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yelloweye