WDFW and ODFW to undo the Columbia R gillnet reforms?

[Blacklab]

Acidnine if this get rolled back. Greed is whats fueling the fire. They had 3 years to change nets with our $ and did nothing. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

[ASHQUACK]

Unfortunately every fish that is hooked is counted as a dead fish. When the fish checkers ask i always tell them the only encounters i have are the ones in the fish box.

Funny that they would allow barbed hooks again.Barbless hooks were supposed to decrease fish mortality.Not sure how it is on the Columbia but seasons are closed early due to fish encounters,not actual numbers of fish caught.Seems to me they will change the formula used to determine fish mortality due to the perceived notion that there is higher fish mortality when barbed hooks are used.

[fowl smacker]

Well it's official.  Nets are going back in.  PEOPLE, NOW IS THE TIME TO STOP PURCHASING FISHING LICENSES!  IT SEEMS TO BE THE ONLY WAY ANYTHING IS GOING TO GET DONE.  TAKE AWAY THEIR FUNDING.  WHEN TIME COMES VOTE OUT THE GOVERNOR!  This has become such a disastrous political joke.

[BigGoonTuna]

well, at least this will be good for the handful of hobby netters down in astoria that have the sacred duty of supplying the non fishing public with salmon 

[WSU]

Salmon management is a train wreck.  WDFW management has had years to implement these changes, all with funding agreed to by the rec community.  They enabled an obsolete industry and, now that they did nothing, implementing the policy will be painful.  Rather than make everyone take their medicine, which they've known has been prescribed for years, we trash thousands of hours of work and hundreds of thousands of dollars in dollars spent.

Why?  Because WDFW fisheries management is run by dip*censored*s with no spine.  But hey, at least this all coincided with a year the hobby netters can have nice mop up coho fishery.  Too bad for the endangered B run steelhead, chinook, etc. that will be slaughtered in the process. 

[MtnMuley]

Salmon management is a train wreck.  WDFW management has had years to implement these changes, all with funding agreed to by the rec community.  They enabled an obsolete industry and, now that they did nothing, implementing the policy will be painful.  Rather than make everyone take their medicine, which they've known has been prescribed for years, we trash thousands of hours of work and hundreds of thousands of dollars in dollars spent.

Why?  Because WDFW fisheries management is run by dip*censored*s with no spine.  But hey, at least this all coincided with a year the hobby netters can have nice mop up coho fishery.  Too bad for the endangered B run steelhead, chinook, etc. that will be slaughtered in the process.