Statement from WDFW Director Jim Unsworth on Puget Sound fisheries

[trophyhunt]

I just sent Unsworth an email asking for a refund on my combo fishing license, interested to see if he responds and what he says.

[huntnphool]

Just can't help but wonder what bargaining chips one holds.  We work together or what?

We have the ability to force them to negotiate, just not the balls to do it!

Bingo!!!!!! If I had Bill Gates money, I'd hire a butt load of lawyers and the fight would be on.

 Actually TH, it wouldn't take a butt load of money, but rather just the intestinal fortitude and desire to end the bickering and put everyone on the same playing field.

 The answer is simple, but in today's PC world would have liberals pissing in their pants, which suggests the improbability of anything ever being done.

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

I just sent Unsworth an email asking for a refund on my combo fishing license, interested to see if he responds and what he says.

This should be interesting? If he does respond.

[trophyhunt]

I just sent Unsworth an email asking for a refund on my combo fishing license, interested to see if he responds and what he says.

This should be interesting? If he does respond.

yeah, I'm probably not going to draw any permits now!   

[Wacenturion]

This whole thing could have/should have been dealt with a few years ago when the tribes were fighting casino taxes.

Got that right.......

[bigtex]

The public knew several months ago the runs would be very bad on most systems this year and most people knew that some areas would be closed or have limited seasons and most understood that, I don't remember anyone asking for refunds at that time.

But now since it's a WDFW vs tribe battle some are asking for a refund. What's the difference? Heck the way I look at it WDFW isn't caving to tribal interests for once. If WDFW wanted to they could cave to the tribal requests and we could get some fishing. But WDFW doesn't want to agree to what the tribes want.

The issue with the whole BIA allowing the tribe to fish is BS. But there's nothing really WDFW could do in that case.

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[huntnphool]

The public knew several months ago the runs would be very bad on most systems this year and most people knew that some areas would be closed or have limited seasons and most understood that, I don't remember anyone asking for refunds at that time.

But now since it's a WDFW vs tribe battle some are asking for a refund. What's the difference? Heck the way I look at it WDFW isn't caving to tribal interests for once. If WDFW wanted to they could cave to the tribal requests and we could get some fishing. But WDFW doesn't want to agree to what the tribes want.

The issue with the whole BIA allowing the tribe to fish is BS. But there's nothing really WDFW could do in that case.

 With all due respect BT, WDFW has no idea what the runs will be like year to year, their forcasts are speculation at best. I'll use the previous few years of them being completely baffled at the record runs of salmon and the smelt numbers returning to the Columbia as examples.

 I'm more inclined to believe the quake and resulting tsunami in Japan that wiped out the Japanese fishing fleet is what led to the increase in returns the previous few years. And now that their fleets have had time to rebuild, we are again seeing the result of over harvesting by commercials.

[kodiak 907]

 

Excellent point