Originally Posted By: Piper
Originally Posted By: Carcassman
Notice the number of rivers that are now closed to angling on Indian Fishing Days? Wonder how long it will take for this to occur in major saltwater fisheries.


It happened a few years ago between the hood canal bridge and foulweather bluff between mid july and august...

while it may not have been a major saltwater fishery, it made all us small boats make the run all the way out to foulweather to target the early run coho's instead of fishing them close by the ramp.


Just remember that it is the Suquamish tribe which has objected to the ramp work at PNP and is holding up that project insofar as the USACE will not issue the permit absent agreement between WDFW and the tribe(s). One of their two major points is that recreational fishers who would use that facility would impair their tribal fishing rights. The other is their concern about impact on forage fish spawning habitat - NOAA/NMFS has issued a letter to the USACE basically giving its thumbs up to the project.

The type of behavior exhibited by the skipper of that fishing boat should net him a visit by the Coast Guard, but nothing will happen if past incidents are an indicator of future enforcement directed at tribal members.
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