Originally Posted By: Somethingsmellsf
Originally Posted By: freespool
This plan that CCA has drawn up is clearly anti sportfishing.
But will it win a cake at the PTA?


I want some of whatever your smoking! How the hell does getting the gill nets out of the columbia equate to being anti sports fisherman??????

Fishy


So what part of this statement don't you understand?

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.