If you're referring to banning gillnets, then yes it has been defeated by Oregon voters twice.
The biggest problem here is the 30 second sound bite the commercials will be running, it's unbeatable, add the fact that they have very deep pockets and your chances of successfully convincing the non-fishing public is just about zero.
FYI it takes about 5 million to run a winning ballot measure campaign in the state of Oregon.
the cca doesnt take on anything they cant win
What wins do you have?
Fishy
over the years ive been involved with various issues but anymore i dont say or do much, it`s obvious that i must be kinda old fashion and want better sportfishing and the restoring of fish runs but the new way is to ruin sportfishing and not restore anything so i figure if thats what you new-wave anglers want you can have it, i dont have to spend my fishing money in washington and i know a few of us are going to be quite happy saying we told you so, it`s actualy sad that you guys are so blind.
For you to make a blanket statement like that says so much, you are constantly asking people to back up what they say and when asked about your wins you come out with that, which means you have nothing concrete to point to or you would make sure we knew about it.
I believe the majority of us here would like to see an improvement with sportfishing, but as I have said before the state of washington is far bigger than the columbia river. If that step to get the gillnets out gets the gillnets out of the rest of washington then I am in. We sportsfishers has sacrificed far more than just your neck of the woods.
Now seems to be the time to finally get rid of these wasteful, indiscriminate killers once and for all!
Seems we will never agree on this but I will lose no sleep over it.
Doc said it best when he said "Getting fisher folks to agree on something is like herding cats"
Gill nets out of all Washington waters!
Fishy
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