Sg, based on the memberships' responses on several boards about this topic, I suspect if I told them the sky was blue they'd run and ask Gary if it was true, and then he'd probably say it was orange and then they'd all argue with me...if I thought there was some reasonable modicum of receptiveness I might consider it...but I haven't seen it...as a matter of fact, I typically run into a quite the opposite, and militantly, too, I might add.

If the States and the commercials figure this purse seine thing out, I can't wait to see how the membership reacts when...at best...fishing gets worse for them with no benefit to the ESA salmon.

It could get a lot worse than that, too...wait until they get their seasons slashed in half when the "more selective" commercial guys start getting, at a minimum, a 50/50 split on the ESA impact allocations...that's the part that sucks even more, because based on how the allocation talks have gone the past six or seven years, they'll be entitled to it.

Fish on...

Todd