grandpa 2

That all-or-none thinking is obsolete... the world is not as black and white as you make it to be. If the bulk of the run is hatchery-produced with our tax dollars and license fees for the singular purpose of creating harvest opportunity, then by golly they ought to be harvested. If not, then why the hell should we waste our time and $$$ producing hatchery fish?

With a comprehensive basin-wide marking program on these hatchery kings, a selective fishery can occur which will achieve the "highest and best use" of surplus hatchery kings. All users benefit... yes even the gillnetters.

Are there any WDFW guys lurking on this board who can answer why this marking program has not come to fruition to date? Is it money? Or is it some other external hurdle? Would WDFW allow a third party to fund the marking project... perhaps with matching funds from the WDFW? Is anybody from the local TU chapters reading this?
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"Let every angler who loves to fish think what it would mean to him to find the fish were gone." (Zane Grey)

"If you don't kill them, they will spawn." (Carcassman)


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Long Live the Kings!