Originally Posted By: Krijack
A true idiot, but my guess is that no true response to this will be allowed. Maybe we should dissect this line by line and send back a response as a collective, with everyone signing on.


You know what they say about arguing with an idiot. Lowe's letter is a poorly penned piece of hysterical fiction; the genre of choice when a gillnetter wants to deflect the scrutiny his wasteful practices are attracting. Once, a gillnetter did a television interview while standing in front of a huge pile of gillnets. Oblivious to the nonselective "curtains of death" stacked behind him, he loudly proclaimed fish farms to be the "greatest threat" to NW salmon survival. Testimony from the commercials at the recent senate hearing on SB 5844 was as emotional and irrational as the Lowe letter. The "sports priority" legislation sponsors aren't going away, and neither is their push to get their legislation passed in another session.

I'd think the local fishwrap would welcome a reasoned rebuttal to Lowe's letter.