WHEW!!!!!Your right on,but the gillnetters still have to go.If that means I can't fish the columbia for two or three years to help
then thats what it means but the time for talking is over its time for some action
before its really to late.We've been talking for years and haven't done much of anything else.I fish the washougal 95% of the time for steelhead and fish for salmon and STURGEON just out front of the washougal and the only thing between the Washougal and the ocean is GILLNETS and our fisheries are just about nill infact there claiming we'll have a lousy fall chinook run this year and might get shutdown or just a few days to fish.But the gillnetters will still get all there time.There are NO dams from here to the mouth
of the river so again your right on saying its the human factor.Maybe the answer is to breech the dams and stop all salmon and steelhead fishing in the columbia and give the fish a chance to rebuild the runs.If thats what it takes lets get it done.


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Bob Dawson