Originally Posted By: FishRanger
How about looking at it from the standpoint of Wild fish conservation, rather than the "how many more fish can I kill than the other guy" position. Or the "they are taking MY fish" stance. Getting the commercials off the Columbia (and more so out of Puget Sound) is good long term goal, more short term is to get them to quit killing the wild stock so that there are fish to hit the gravel.
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That is EXACTLY where I come from.

But we are talking about the harvesting of hatchery spring chinook and how to best do that.

And there's plenty of us here that want to maximize that fishery, including more fish for the guys ABOVE BONNEVILLE (remember them?). Our local economy really needs the boost.

And there's options to accomplish that without sacrificing sportfishing by allowing the commercial fleet to take even more - which is the near certain outcome of the CCA selective harvest proposal.

Think back just a couple years....anglers pissed off about the commercials taking so many springers (yes, and the wild bycatch) and the organizing that happened surrounding those impact-allocation battles is precisely what caused CCA membership to skyrocket.




Edited by OntheColumbia (10/16/09 06:25 PM)
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