You're wrong, but that doesn't surprise me.

The ESA does not control how GH fisheries are conducted, while it controls virtually everything about how CR fisheries are conducted.

On GH it's an easy fix...don't harvest so much. Making that happen, of course, isn't as easy as it sounds, but we're trying.

On the Columbia it's such a completely different ball game that you can't even compare the two.

You can continue to attack the messenger, but ignoring the message won't make it go away.

Killing 2% in the non-tribal fishery is killing 2%...period. How they die does not affect how many die, though it definitely affects how good the fishing is for the springer fishermen on the Columbia, and the tribal fishermen, too, for that matter.

As I've said before, I don't even fish for springers on the LCR, but those who do and support a selective non-tribal commercial fishery there are giving up fishing and harvest opportunities with nothing in return. No gain to the ESA springers, and a serious loss of hatchery fish to fish for.

Fish on...

Todd