Crushing blow for everyone that looks forward to salmon fishing in Puget Sound.

MA9 will see twice the effort, all the guys that post up at Richmond Beach, Jeff Head, Meadow and West Point will head North. The quota will be gobbled up and most likely it will be open for one weekend, maybe two if we are lucky.

Conservation of our wild stocks is extremely important, but I feel like we was blind-sided by the lack of transparency in the process. Initially, WDFW proposed a 2 Chinook daily limit for MA9/10 and what we got were chopped quota in MA9 and zero retention in MA10. Even though all sport fishing advocates including NMTA, NSIA, CCA, PSA have been diligently working on our behalf, there was no negotiation, no public discourse, just a final verdict that we all must accept. This isn't the way our system should work.