Actually it's the commissions of WDFW and ODFW that decide how the harvest is allocated. Oregon's laws allow the commission to make its harvest decisions in a very arbitrary manner - without even specifying what guidelines they are using to make these critical decisions. IF you're putting faith in the ODFW Commission to protect sport anglers, then you're unaware of their decisions these past years to to shift more harvest in favor of the commercials. As WA's commission has begun to treat sport anglers more equitably, Oregon's ODFW commission has done the opposite. And there's no signs of them changing that stance, especially with gillnet provisioner Jon Englund renewing his term on the commission.

Of course the status quo sucks. That lit the fire for CCA to build on. But I can tell you, I and the others in our chapter didn't join CCA to diminish sport fishing by creating a welfare program for gillnetters.