Okay, I'll bite....

"population in this state has tripled in the last 30 years " Does that mean the number of fishermen has tripled? Does anyone have hard numbers?

"less water for the fish, poor water quality, more flooding due to timber and development activities" Anyone have hard data on this? I would bet that the water is cleaner now than it was in 1970 and that the timber industry impact is much less now. Has anyone else seen the devastation caused by the timber industry around the turn of the century?

Come on now.....I'm certainly willing to look in the mirror....but to place blame on the recreational fisherman is ludicrous when we all know where the vast majority of this blame should be directed.... Need I remind you...what happened 30 years ago?... Could the Boldt decision have had just a bit of an impact on this? I'm not specifically blaming just the Indians though. In fact I support their treaty rights.

Offshore commercial nets get first shot - Anyone know how many fish they take?
Indians take 50% of harvest - 50% of blame too right?
Puget Sound Commercials get their share -how many do they take?
Recreational fishermen get a share if there are any left. -anyone know exactly what the recreational impact is?

The one point I will wholeheartedly share with you is: "Whinning is not going to improve things - in fact that and apathy is precisely what has brought us to this state of affairs."

I have said before and I will repeat... We need more recreational fishermen actively watching the resource. Our sport will die or be killed by the PETA and/or Indians and/or Commercial netters groups if we don't .