Same thing is going on country wide, for instance the idea that if the government spends more money this will somehow reduce the national debt. If the fish and wildlife depts. give the commercials more hatchery fish it will give the sports more fish. What kind of logic is this? The ones who believe this are easy to tell, they keep repeating the same old slogans like eating elephants and getting hatchery fish off the spawning grounds. When you try to tell them that those "nasty" hatchery fish are the ones that they can keep, and most of them are stopped by weirs at the hatcheries, it goes right over their heads. These alternative methods being tested were outlawed THANKS to the gillnetters because they could not compete with them. If a gillnet can`t catch a fish above a seining operation, what chance do you think you`ll have with a cut plug and a rod? Bill