Originally Posted By: Jake Dogfish


There are many reasons why getting gillnets out of the river will improve fishing.



if your talking about spring hatchery chinook on the columbia i agree that getting the gillnets out will improve sportfishing, make for longer seasons and kill a few less non-target fish, "but", getting gillnets out and replacing them with a selective commercial method that lets say has the same release mortality rate as sports will hurt sportfishing, the game departments will give the commercials more hatchery fish and they will come from sport fisherman, there is no other place for them to come from and that will shorten our season.


Edited by boater (10/20/09 04:42 PM)