Excellant thread and at this juncture of critical mass
EVERYBODY ON THIS THREAD IS RIGHT
This thread has gone from fish so thick on the Columbia, Lewis and Clark could walk on their backs and not get wet to present day rivers and creeks in WA and OR to extinction. Well, their is our chess game board of opening move to middle and end game.
The pieces used on this game brought up by people on this thread were: WDFW, tribes, dams, hatcheries, too many guides, over harvest,CnR,Ocean cycles,nets, habitat, hatchery fish mixed in, habitat, predation, better sport fishermen, addiction to harvest, oil, extraction of every resource, sonar of fish runs,logging, climate, cranked up Alaska harvest, By catch from Japan,Alaska, and BC,and over harvest of herring and other forage fish.
At this juncture of the game one or combination of any or all of above pieces used can go straight to the end game so everybody is right.
I know that isn't any fun because now we are all on the same side with no distractions and the powers to be wouldn't like that because together we would probably work out a solution in short order and really screw up everything--- for the good of course.
I still maintain that we are all on the same side. If so, who should we be concentrating are alliance against? For instance, instead of pointing fingers at each other, who should we pointing the finger at? Hint:Who are the "powers to be" elluded to in the last paragraph of quote.
Times up. The answer is; our alliance should be squaring up against commercial fishing interest instead of pointing fingers at each other.What are they? A constortium of businesses that have started and developed seafood markets around the globe long ago. Our game we started above from so thick with fish to critical mass was cause by global demand over the years.When we hit the middle point just starting to slide down toward critical mass there was public concern. Commercial fishing Interest main tools of choice:
1) Commercial fleet to supply product
2) Money from selling and destroying seafood bio mass
3) Politicians
A. To introduce and support their legislation to try to continue to get more and more share to keep with demand while destroying seafood bio mass at the same time.
$$$ is the driver and in their greed they could care less about fish.
Decade after decade after decade of legislation has been introduced by their interests with little to some resistance.
If you don't like what you see when you go fishing, it's time to find a grass roots outfit that plays at their level, that strikes and adds legislation, has lobbists, and has the ability to play in the
commercial fishing interests arena that is their 'POLITICAL DOMAIN'. All help will be needed if we want the good ol' days back.
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