TF..........while many would agree with you.......gill netters and others, WDFW, feel that "if the numbers are there, kill'em"....

Last year, At NOF in the Olympia the guys from the G.H. sports group, because the number of catchable Chum was low...said "Chum should go back to the gravel".... Wow, that was a mistake...gill netters jumped all over that one...."said, they would like to have them"....WDFW, said "you got them".....what that did was give the GH cowboys, another 2 days of netting.....while it was for Chum, of course they got to keep and sell, any Coho they got........so.......

I'll never sit there and allow any salmon that are making escapement numbers, to not have a sports fishery on them.

At some time, WDFW might realize that the value of a sports caught fish..........far exceeds the value of a "in-river" gill net caught fish...

hagd
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