What it says to me and any other quick thinking individual who has monitored this fishery for the past 35 or so years is exactly that. Catch large numbers of hatchery salmon. And at the same time leave harmless the endangered species and protected species. Again large numbers of hatchery fish are left on the table after sport efforts to remove them have been exhausted. Case in point. the Willamette experienced large returns of hatchery salmon this spring. Sports caught their two fish limits over and over and quit fishing long before the fish quit coming. And the season and opportunity never closed. A neighbor of mine who is a very good salmon fisherman filled two hatchery tags and boated over 50 salmon. Other boats reported boating over 50 fish. Not guides either. Now I ask you again, How many damn fish can you eat? The reason we need to get those fish out of the river is to save wild fish. I'm not opposed to commercial fishing but I hate gillnets and what they do unintentionally to the wild resource.

POSA is coming! Be very afraid!