LL Guess I'm not up to speed on these bills, but I'm pretty sure Washington State Law has no bearing on tribal treaties. If you review the George Bush presidental order to ban high seas driftnetting for RedDrum. Its very direct that it would only apply to nontribal fisherman, which aren't fishing it anyway? We also have the Sac as a prime example of what does't work, gillnetting shut down, trolling shut down, sportfishing shut down, Sealions are protected and there still just pumping the rivers dry.
Please don't associate my comments to CCA or their issues. I think that is what is confusing to you on previous post. Like I said above, that it is my take on these particular situations.
My wife and I had the chance to fish the gulf for 1)tarpon, 2)grouper, and 3)drum, snook, and sea trout. We targeted these three individual groups on seperate days.The guides and I had time to talk about many issues affecting the gulf area. I have accumulated some data since that time.
You and I apparently, try to compare other areas that aren't in our backyard to see if there is a common thread. So here we go again to by catch. Just because there isn't a fishery in your back yard doesn't mean that specie isn't being severely effected in some shape or form.The shrimp fishery, just one fishery that has cause and effect on drum and many other species in that area. Here is a link to the utter waste by this fishery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bycatch This link states that of the global shrimp fishery of 7,000,000,000 lbs. the discarded waste range from 3:1 to 15:1 ratio in the US, depending on what area you fish, to 20:1 in some parts of the globe.That means that some number between 21 Billion lbs. to 140,000,000,000 lbs. of by catch is thrown out as garbage each year. I repeat, just one of all fisheries around the globe with by catch.
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