Originally Posted By: billjr64

1. This is straight from WDFW website. Reading it and listening to what is going on lately I`ve drawn a conclussion. Sport fishermen are about to pay for the commercial fishermen`s switch to more selective methods.

2. When the nets go in the LCR fsports fishing suffers, this proposal will lead to LONGER commercial seasons due to nearly nearly no ESA impacts with these NEW methods that were outlawed in the early 1900`s because they were too effective.


Yes, it looks like the "endorsement" is WA anglers share. And for Oregon, in CCA's proposed ballot initiative, according to their press release, there is funding for the commercials through some yet-unknown mechanism.

Great. The commercials can't fund their own fishery experiments, to benefit themselves. So we anglers are going to kick in more money, to subsidize them more, to increase their competition with sport anglers.

Whatta Plan! It's a re-packaged version of what CCA took to the Oregon Legislature. With a subsidy added. Too bad it wasn't instead a straight buy-out of commercial licenses to settle the issue once and for all.

About that 'competition'. Notice the WDFW isn't talking about any caps on commercial harvest. Nor does CCA 's press release mention a cap to protect sport fishing as being a key point of their initiative.
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