Native Nets In The Hood Canal

[seansfire]

I was at the Hoodsport Hatchery on Thursday which i gather by the info posted there is the day the indians get to net. There were 5 or 6 boats stretching the beach seins out one right after the other from the same spot about 20 feet from the buoys that mark the boundary there. We watched 3 boats operate before it just plain made us sick to watch. The indians had nets from there almost back to Purdy Cutoff road and in that short span of water i think we counted 8 nets.

I just want to say that it makes me sick to see the level of greed and selfishness shown by this group of people. I dont mean just the hood canal but indians statewide. They have killed the salmon runs in the hood canal and all the rivers that flow into it as indians have done all over the state in the name of the treaties that are a joke and a slap in the face to every American that follows the laws and rules set forth by our government.

In closing i want to suggest to everyone that if the netting continues which i am sure it will next year that NOBODY buys your 2012 hunting or fishing license and that we do continue to exercise our right as Americans to hunt and fish anytime we wish. By my theory if fish and game is as short staffed as they say  , there is no way they are going to arrest or ticket many of us and even if they do perhaps the flood of people going to court will open the eyes of a few people that will step in and right some wrongs that have been in place too long already.

Lets get together on this one and make a major change. Enough is enough.

If anyone on here has a website i can write e-mails to please send it via PM or post it here so everyone can use it.

[gasman]

So, would it also pisssss you off if I told ou I seen about 30 commercial boats with nets this last Wed. from the Hood Canal Bridge 

30 is a guesstamet, there were  so many boats i could not count them all.

[Tman]

I may catch some crap for this, but, regardless of race, religion, etc. if you want fish...catch it..   If you want wild game,  hunt it..  The days of recklessly profiting off of the fish and wildlife should be gone.

[Button Nubbs]

You know what makes me sick???









Snaggers...

[FC]

So, would it also pi*censored*ss you off if I told ou I seen about 30 commercial boats with nets this last Wed. from the Hood Canal Bridge 

30 is a guesstamet, there were  so many boats i could not count them all.

All nets piss me off, I don't care who they belong to, seeing them in the river and the way those Hood canal chums get wasted REALLY fires me up though.

I may catch some crap for this, but, regardless of race, religion, etc. if you want fish...catch it..   If you want wild game,  hunt it..  The days of recklessly profiting off of the fish and wildlife should be gone.

I absolutely agree 100%. Farm/ranch raised fish and game are another story entirely, I am ok with both.

[duckmen1]

this country is all against racism right? well giving a certain group of people the right to do something/everything and anything and not others, isn't that racism
it is in my eyes

[oldcamper]

I don't know but man these bails of straw are getting expensive. 

[mkcj]

My problem with this fishery is that it's mostly chum salmon and by this time of year the canneries are full and are giving about 5 cents a pound so the males are thrown away the females are striped of there row and then thrown away. These fish are worthless commercially but are still caught just to be wasted. It use to be they just threw the fish on the beach to rot and there were hundreds laying around.

[FC]

It use to be they just threw the fish on the beach to rot and there were hundreds laying around.

Then they moved on to thousands? My favorite part is watching the males get pulled out of the net half-alive at best and then get dropped on their head next to the boat in six inch deep water, they don't count against the quota when released, right?

[JimmyHoffa]

So, would it also pi*censored*ss you off if I told ou I seen about 30 commercial boats with nets this last Wed. from the Hood Canal Bridge 

30 is a guesstamet, there were  so many boats i could not count them all.

I tried counting last Monday and couldn't because I can't stop on the bridge.  My guess was over a hundred and that was just what you could see.  I could tell that boats were net to net to atleast Dabob.  Whether it was non-tribal commercials or tribal commercial boats, the fish were definitely gonna have a tough time.

[jeepster]

i gillnetted in hood canal last summer, and prior to doing so had similar thoughts.

heres the thing about hood canal chums.......

they are terminal... meaning they are hatchery raised for the roe market. the chums dont have any river to go up... they just mill around till they die. sure there might be a stream or two they swim up but they are almost all terminal...


regardless... down with indian fishing... this is 2011 not 1878.

i for one wouldnt cry if the indian docks suddenly went up in smoke.......21st century smoke signals anybody?

[PA BEN]

I may catch some crap for this, but, regardless of race, religion, etc. if you want fish...catch it..   If you want wild game,  hunt it..  The days of recklessly profiting off of the fish and wildlife should be gone.

You counting the guides too? These guys lock up land and make a lot of money on fishing.

[singleshot12]