Todd -
I was curious if there were any good estimates of the number of small Washington base manufacturing businesses whose major customers are recreational fishers? I'm thinking of local rod, lure, etc. manufactures.

I was thinking about of the senate hearings last week and Senator Chase's economic comments. My guess is there are significantly more of those small business on the recreation side of the equation than on the non-treaty salmon commercial side.

It is a given that commercial fishing is a large business in this state but in the dividing the salmon piece we need to sure to compare only salmon values. As I had posted on an earlier thread non-treaty commercial salmon fishery is a tiny piece of the entire commercial fishing industry.

Curt