Originally Posted By: boater
Originally Posted By: salmon bake


Fishing the day after you net all the salmon,sturgeon and steelhead to death the sport fishing goes to hell.



how do you think sportfishing will be after the gillnetters switch to a method that will enable them to take more fish ?, have you even thought of that ?


why is it so difficult for you to understand this is not one shot victory. There are plenty of battles behind this one. You keep asking the same stupid question expecting a different answer. You assume the harvest rules CANT be changed.

There will be people who quit fishing if the numbers on the CR go down. let them go. The rest of us WANT wild fish to have a chance to recover. Selective gear is not the magic pill, its a first step. While you would do nothing the tribes would continue unquestioned until we have functionally extinct runs of fish in every river they net. Then some peta group will pick up where the owl huggers left off and the Columbia could get closed permanently JUST LIKE THEY WANT TO DO TO PUGET SOUND RIGHT NOW. The rockfish plan blames sportsmen for overharvesting ground fish. Meanwhile there are only two bottom draggers left, since all the others are out of work. DUH ! CCA is not going to change their approach based on what you have to back it up. You have nothing.
Ya pissin in the wind.