Originally Posted By: Castingpearls
Still, nobody has been able to explain this one detail:

If harvest opportunity is based on impacts to ESA listed salmon.....

And the commercial fisherman go to more selective methods, minimizing the impacts they have.....

They will fish until they reach the allowed impacts....

Same number of ESA fish die but more hatchery fish are harvested.....

By commercial fisheries.

Sportfisherman get the same allowed impacts but there will be less hatchery fish to harvest.

Commercial fisheries take more hatchery fish and release more wild fish then sporties fish for the leftovers which will be whatever hatchery fish get past the commercial guys plus all the ESA wild fish that the commercial guys release with the new methods,whatever they may be.

With this increased ratio in hatchery:wild fish during the sport season, the allowable impacts will be reached much sooner which will result in early closures.

Why am I supposed to support this as a sportfisherman?



Common sense... Something normal people have I guess... Your question is one that will go unanswered.....

There's nothing like a group of people that come together following the mother cult and preach about what they've done for others in the past. Although the intentions are good (get rid of gillnets) there's better answers than what they've come up with... And the next question by the CCA followers will be ? What else could be done??

Thanks CCA for bullying your way through for everyone and making decisions for the sportsman, and thanks for listening to common sense... rofl

Keith
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