Originally Posted By: Jaydee
Originally Posted By: fish4brains
The season should have never opened for king retention. I can't remember how many times at NOF when there was a "surplus" of a couple hundred paper fish, that the sport reps would ask for no king retention and RW would find every way to justify it.


This!


Yup. They wouldn't be able to justify an unnecessary non-tribal commercial gillnet fishery, though, if they didn't have paper fish for sporties to fish for...so they'll gladly tell us it's all good and don't care that we'll fish right past the paper limit of the paper fish. They'd get even more crucified than they are getting now if they closed it to sport retention and then went ahead and opened up the gillnet fleet.

In a world of overharvested and poorly managed fish runs the Grays Harbor management regime is the worst...and that, my friends, is saying something.

There is no "here's what fish we have, how are we going to catch them?" going on...it's "here's the fisheries we are going to have, how are we going to justify them on paper?".

Fish on...

Todd
_________________________


Team Flying Super Ditch Pickle