Originally Posted By: Todd
Here's Step 1 in the plan, which has been clicking along pretty well for the last decade:

Make the commercial seasons shorter and shorter, with less and less fish to catch, until even the most diehard or tax shelter-seeking commercial fishers can't afford to do it.

Giving them a way to make more money, while taking fish directly from the sportfishers and the businesses that depend on sportfishing, is so counterproductive that "sportfishermen" advocating for it would be a really, really funny joke...were it not, sadly, true.

Fish on...

Todd


Making commercial seasons shorter and less cost effective would work if most of the commercials did not work up in Alaska too. They make their travel and beer money here while making their income up north.

Waiting for this to happen is like waiting for a politician with a back bone that won't whore us out to the corporations.

Advocating gillnets out of those waters is but one step toward getting them out of all of washinton states waters, the sooner the better!


Fishy
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The idea of a middle class life is slowly drifting away as each and every day we realize that our nation is becoming more of a corporatacracy.

I think name-calling is the right way to handle this one/Dan S

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