Originally Posted By: eyeFISH
Originally Posted By: Beezer
I've heard that the treaty with B.C. intends for the B.C. commercial trollers to intercept WA/OR bound chinook in exchange for an allowance for the WA non-treaty commercial fishers to get a wack at Fraizer River bound sockeye.

Beezer


That may not be the exact scenario, but you definitely get the gist of it.

The paper fish are traded on the allocation table across a variety of stocks and international borders for the benefit of the fat cats... the tonnage dudes.

But it's REAL fish and REAL livelihoods at the local level that are at stake here.

Time for our representatives at the Pacific Salmon Commission to roll up their sleeves and start advocating for the home team.


Look back at yelloweye's post, both of you guys need to educate yourselves a bit more. 1) It’s spelled Fraser not Frazier and 2) the trade that occurred last time they negotiated a sockeye annex (1999 or thereabouts) was for a $30 million chunk of change from Canada that went towards a buy back of a bunch of our Puget Sound commercial purse seine and gillnet permits and the US also gave away about 30% of the sockeye share in exchange for Canada reducing its catch on US bound coho and Chinook. So the US gave up a bunch of commercial share to get a bunch of sport share. Once again like yelloweye usually says, please know what you are talking about before spouting something off.

The guys on the panels work hard for Southern fisheries, and the names are probably familiar to all. Straight off the PSC website it states John Long is on the Southern Panel for WDFW, looks like Ron Warren is his alternate. The fellow who if I remember right who usually did the modeling breakdowns at NOF (Larry Lavoy) is on the Chinook Panel. So we do have guys working hard for getting fish back to us.