Here is the official notice from ODFW.
I sure get tired of the gill net bias from the DFWs.
Let's recap:
1. They can kill as many wild or hatchery coho as they want. We can only keep 1 hatchery coho per day.
2. Can kill up to 6 sturgeon per vessel EACH WEEK! How many others die in bycatch that are not in the slot size? Tossed overboard? No sturgeon days forecasted for sportsman. Our tag maxes out 2 sturgeon per year!
3. Kill as many steelhead (wild or hatchery) as they want with no repercussions. Not targeted but incidental bycatch by the gill nets.
We have to remember all the money and entitlement in play here. Albertsons, Safeway, Fred Meyer all think they have a right to sell "local" fish. People like Buckmaster on the commission love to argue that not everyone can afford to go fishing so it needs to be in the grocery store. Blah blah blah. Stop wiping out the river. Send the netters to the ocean and GTFO. ESA clearly means nothing the the DFWs. We need real change from on high or it will never get better.
Not my writing tho I do agree👍
