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I feel there`s a big difference between "opportunity to fish" and "opportunity to harvest a keeper". Hell we could be out there right now enjoying our "opportunity" to fish for spring chinook, might as well troll clones for tuna in the LCR and call it an "opportunity" too. I can`t believe people think that increasing the commercial catch will have positive results for sports.Bill


Bill,

Fishy just boiled it down.

Larger quantities of hatchery fish, will be tougher to manage, but if wild recovery begins... the state will have to manage the ratio and the harvest, to achieve the state goal.

If they look at areas, not in the columbia watershed, it might help with increase harvest, to cover increase expenses.

Dont let Freespool muddy this up. He cannot make the case for safe area. On one of the articles, they tried to make the case, that the commercials PAID for the fish in the safe areas. rofl
If thats the case, thats all you get.....