You don't speak for the "educated here on the board", as there are plenty of folks, notably Smalma and Salmo g., who both agree with me. They also agree that the increased commercial harvest of spring Chinook will hurt sportfishing opportunities.

Note that the "interesting letter" we are talking about here is Gov. Kitzhaber's letter that DOES NOT support banning gillnetting...it's supports moving gillnetting, and more hatchery production, into the SAFE areas, and leaving the mainstem fishing to the sporties, and giving the sporties whatever ESA impacts are left there (hopefully more than are there now).

It'll all come out in the wash, I just want to make sure folks know what they are supporting, what the results of getting their way will be, and the difference between that and what they might think they are getting.

Like I said, I have no problem with gillnets being taken out of the Columbia River, I have a problem with forcing the non-tribal commercial guys to use an even more efficient way of harvesting fish when what we ought to be doing is forcing them to get into another line of work altogether.

Fish on...

Todd