I didn't read the whole thread...just the initial post, and then a few posts after...

Where did that initial post get copied over from? It's full of folks who don't know much of anything, on both sides of the argument.

The fact of the matter is, so long as there is non-tribal commercial fishing in the LCR, none of this will matter hardly at all to the health of the fish or the fisheries...just requiring them to use a different tool to kill their share of the ESA springers won't save a single salmon, it will just increase the commercial harvest while killing the same amount.

So far as the initiative goes, it doesn't matter for the Columbia River...unless Washington State follows suit. Without the Compact agreeing on regs, new regs (no matter how they come about) won't apply to the Columbia River, at least not significant regs that greatly affect the fisheries.

If there was anything important that I missed between the middle of page 1 and the end, go ahead and let me know and I'll see about it...when I get back from fishing in a few days

Happy New Year!

Fish on...

Todd