You know I do not know the outcome but the thing I do know is it will be Olympia making the decision and that means Ron Warren will pull the strings be it out of site. Doubt that leaves you feeling warm and fuzzy but it is the manner things are done. I doubt you lose the rec priority but you will lose the North end of the bay especially 2T and maybe U will be iffy. Not enough NOS spawners with small hatchery releases so the mix is such it will be a very limited impact number for the NOS.


As to the South end the same problem with the NOS adults and commercial and rec competing for a very limited impact of NOS ( wild ). This thing with the Willapa Policy is complex but bottom line is EVERYONE and especially the local folks are about to be just plain thrown out of the plane without a chute! Yeah it is probably time to get involved. Thing is the agency has never told the folks just what fisheries will look like. They can use the harvest model and simply use past data of similar years to show big, middle, small runs based on the new parameters the Willapa Policy and hatchery productions dictate. So far throughout the Willapa processes they have.... working..... ah declined to do that. One thing for sure it is going to be so far past ugly that is hard to see many viable fisheries surviving, most certainly T & U with the Willapa inriver competing for very limited NOS impacts.

Yup you should get involved. This has been and will continue to be a purely political decision. As I am editing I see CM's post and this. 2023 the Naselle weir is supposed to be redone to stop all straying. The Naselle will be down (salmon) to Coho fishing and just how much the NOS can take as to freshwater fishing will be limited. Several of the land owners who regard the Naselle as their private stream are about do a number to their shorts on down the road.