Originally Posted By: AuntyM

*Commercial fishers aren't going to get all the fish because they don't fund an increasingly larger percentage of the departments budget.

* They will protect our sport interests to protect their JOBS.


1. Nobody ever said "all" but you keep repeating that statement, like somebody's making that argument. Nobody is. It's not zero/sum. It will be who gets a few thousand more and a few thousand less.

2. Anglers will get about 16,000 mainstem springers this year as allowed under the catch-balancing cap. Moving just a couple thousand of those fish to "selective harvest" commercials -- BECAUSE THE TOTAL IS CAPPED we can't take more -- has a huge impact on the sport fishing season.

Maybe WDFW, but don't count on ODFW protecting sportfishing. The vacant GI JOES stores are testament to that. When it comes to sports versus commercials, sport fishers DO NOT MATTER to this ODFW Commission.


Edited by OntheColumbia (01/08/10 06:00 PM)
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