Salmo g. I completly agree that the Governor needs to respond to the comment made by Lorraine Loomis, as it gives the appearance of some collusion between the tribes and his office to the detriment of the people and the Commission. A letter from me will be promptly placed in the trash, as I'm sure all my other letters have been. Letters from hundreds of concerned citizens, not so easy to ignore. Further, it is so easy to email the Commission and ask them for an explanation of the Governors involvement. The problem is, there are masses who are taking it in the shorts, yet can't muster the courage to say anything about it? Historically, we recreational fishermen are not the most vocal or active in demanding our rights. Therefore, we often are led to the slaughter! There are tens of thousands of recreational fishermen in the Puget Sound Region alone...we got less then 20 responses to our cry to write your representatives and the Governor. That speaks volumes of why we are treated like we don't matter...because we ACT like we don't matter.

We should be screaming at the top of our lungs. Standing in the parking lots of every sporting good store and boat launch and educating guys about what is taking place in our fisheries. There should be hundreds of people showing up and speaking at the Commission meetings, thousands contacting the Governors office! WE, NOT HIM, OR THEY...WE!

I don't mean you personally Salmo, I know you are very active and have been active for many years, I just vent because I cannot understand why we see our fish, our sport and our rights being trampled on and yet, very few really want to get involved. It is frustrating...