Need to have a way to put a persons age on these posts.......
Some, like myself, have been in the Grays Harbor area BEFORE the Bolt Decision. All the things mentioned above have been talked about for 40 years.....The ban gill nets got shot down, when it was tried.
The best thing to happen in the past 40 years, was the Grays Harbor Management Plan.....one of the key parts to the plan was 4/3, 4 days of gill nets and 3 days no nets......problem is the QIN didn't buy into the plan, fault of WDFW not having a working relationship with the tribes,
Mother Nature also cases problems.....no rains, salmon school up in tide water......netting 4 days, 24 hours, QIN got more than their share. Need to have better fish numbers, quicker, so adjustments can be made. Would be nice if salmon numbers, both QIN and NT netters, kept track of "hatchery/wild" numbers....would sure be nice to know so "in season adjustments could be made. Sports have to record, W or H, which is stupid cause that information is not useable for 2+ years.
December to April/May....5 or 6 days of scheduled netting needs to be 4/3, both WDFW and the tribes need to be on the same page,
Sure would be nice to go fishing, in my usual and accustom places.....for a hatchery Coho or hatchery steelhead, ya know what I mean??????
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