#208522 - 08/28/03 09:22 PM
Washington Trout Is At It Again!
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Three Time Spawner
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#208523 - 08/28/03 09:36 PM
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Loc: Vancouver WA
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Grandpa I have 2 questions for you..
! did you read any of the HGMP's?
2. if you did read them what specifics did WDFW lay down as things they would do to protect the endangered runs of wild Puget Saound Chinook???
I read the HGMP's and found them astoundingly vague. There is nothing specific that WDFW is planning on doing to rectify anyof the KNOWN problems with their hatcheries.
I would suggest that you know nothing about WT or it's membership. You only base your opinions of false assumptions of who these people are and what they want.
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#208524 - 08/28/03 09:36 PM
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Registered: 03/22/03
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WT should just stop B******g and compromise on everyone's standards; not their own. They should just let us catch the hatchery fish and release all wild fish, which is going to happen in the next few years anyway.
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#208525 - 08/28/03 10:44 PM
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Originally posted by grandpa2: . Washington Trout is a radical animal rights extremist organization bent on closing all the hatcheries in Washington and other states. washington trout can only try to make the state obide by the rules that were set for hatcheries within the esa system, they cant close any, i would say your problem isnt with washington trout its with the people who wrote the rules that they are trying to make the state follow, why dont you do some research and find out why the rules were put there in the first place, oh ya, i know why, so everyone could ingore them
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#208528 - 08/28/03 11:29 PM
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Grandpa
Thank you for totally ignoreing my honest questions. Also you don't know anything about me or my politics. I am most defenitly not a socialist and resent being called that as a small business owner. You are alsi mischarecterizing what WT wants. WT wants there to be salmon for the distant future.. The science is cryatal clear that the only way that will happen is if wild fish stocks are restored hatchery fish cannot and have never done it. Your charecterization of WT would be like me charecterizing PSA as a group that only cares about pumping out as many hatchery fish as possible so sport anglers can harvest as many as they want.. I don't charecterize them that way because i know that in not how their membership feels. Likewise Washington Trout isn't about closing hatcheries it's about saving the few wild fish left in the state!!
While your gloating about how great this years salmon runs have been and tearing down Washington Trout down here in Southwest washington we are having absolutely terrible returns of both wild and hatchery summer steelhead this on the heels of the worst winter run in recent years. Meanwhile Washington Trout is working in cooperation with angling groups to restore salmon habitat on the Washougal river..
before you wrongfully badmouth WT I wanna know what you are doing to help salmon?? But if you'd like to put your money where your mouth is meet me on the East Fork Lewis next Saturday morning bring a shovel and a wheelbarrow.
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#208532 - 08/29/03 12:36 AM
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Originally posted by grandpa2: Washington Trout is ALL ABOUT closing hatcheries. To say it isn't is dishonest.
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#208533 - 08/29/03 12:55 AM
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Three Time Spawner
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#208534 - 08/29/03 01:55 AM
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I support Washington Trout, and the destruction of all hatcheries, or the reform of those hatcheries so that wild fish are not harmed.
Long live the wild salmon and steelhead! Long May they Run!
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#208535 - 08/29/03 02:13 AM
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#208536 - 08/29/03 04:45 AM
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Registered: 05/09/03
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I have no opinion regarding WT's ultimate objective, be it saving wild salmon or closing hatcheries.... But.... if they are really concerned about saving wild salmon and steelhead, they need to focus a lot more on the nets (tribal and non-tribal). I have witnessed so many wild steelhead and salmon taken with these nets in the Columbia River. It is just unimaginable that an endangered species would be allowed to be netted and groups like WT remain silent on that, but not other destructive practices.
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#208538 - 08/29/03 07:56 AM
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Three Time Spawner
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Instead of reading the paper this morning I read the 100 page report put together by Washington Trout in response to the WDFW proposed HGMPs to NMFS. All their studies and inspections of the hatcherys mirtaculously came to the same conclusions that WT had in the first place.Imagine that! WOW. Here is a snippet from Ramon's term paper: " The HGMP's consistently fail to discuss why it is socially, economically or biologically necessary , advisable, or even beneficial to provide fish for harvest..." Nice job Ramon Pretty much sums it up doesn't it? No need to provide fish for harvest.
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#208541 - 08/29/03 09:26 AM
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Spawner
Registered: 09/08/02
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Loc: des moines
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Looks like its time for another round of boycott letters to the WT suporters. The list is still on there website.
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#208542 - 08/29/03 10:37 AM
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Registered: 05/10/03
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Loc: Vancouver WA
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Grandpa this hasn't been a discussion.. It's been you just going off on Washington Trout.. if you want this to be a discussion read my first post and answer the questions.
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