The lack of due process does have negative effects on communities and sporting good stores.

This rule change should be conducted like any other decision, like for instance, when commercial fishers are involved.

The owner of Hook Line and Sinker sporting goods store publicly stated that the last nail in the coffin before he went out of business was the Puget Sound sturgeon decision. Which in affect was treating PS different from the other areas in the state by an arbitrary and capricious ruling that didn’t include science or an impact statement.


Communities and sporting good stores are suffering by a slow death of a thousand cuts from the toll of each ruling. Many sporting good stores have already gone out of business. This Cab ruling will have an adverse outcome for the communities in that area and again no impact statement.

I'm all for using science behind decision making instead of nefarious behavior --leading to poor judgement/decisions-- leading to the demise of communities, businesses, and fishing opportunity.


It is hard to fathom communities, storeowners, and the fishing public sitting around idly as these callous, nefarious, arbitrary and capricious acts have unfolded without due process and the proper science documentation behind the reasoning.

The court system is just another tool in the toolbox that sometimes needs to be used.