I think the first step in changing how commercial fisheries are operated is NOT letting someone tell you "The Public deserves salmon, too!" without telling them to suck it.

No they don't.

They don't deserve elk, or ducks, or largemouth bass, either. If they want them they can go buy a license and a fishing rod and go get it done.

Rearranging the deck chairs on the deck of the USS Commercial Salmon Fishery will not ever help. Not purse seines, not tangle nets...not bird excluders, and not SAFE zones.

Stop subsidizing their fisheries, that's where this needs to go. They make zero sense economically, or socially. Those fish are infinitely more valuable on the end of sport lines or spawning, whether it be in the rivers in the case of wild fish or in the hatchery in the case of hatchery fish...period.

Fish on...

Todd