Fishpinner...I'll tell you what's dense.

Dense is sportfishers supporting a program that will kill the exact same amount of wild ESA springers, saving NOT a one, and will likely remove triple or quadruple fish from the river that are usual available for sport harvest opportunities.

Dense is folks having no idea how Lower Columbia River seasons are set, and how the fish are allocated.

Dense is thinking that those methods will change easily, if ever at all.

Dense is comparing the Colvilles using a purse seine in a tiny river that barely moves as a requirement for them to get their own salmon hatchery to non-tribal commercials using purse seines to quadruple their catch of hatchery springers.

Dense is thinking that the CRTFC tribes on the Columbia will use selective fishing techniques, or ever could be forced to, by anyone.

Dense is thinking that removing a tiny fraction of spawning hatchery fish from the spring Chinook spawning grounds will make any difference whatsoever in the productivity of the spawning grounds for the wild Chinook.

Dense is calling anyone who doesn't drool at the name of Gary Loomis or the mention of the CCA as a "gillnet hugger".

Dense is thinking that so long as there is any non-tribal commercial fishing under federal rules required by the ESA in the Lower Columbia River that there will be any meaningful recovery of spring Chinook stocks listed on the ESA.

Extra-Dense is being shown these undeniable truths over and over again...yet continuing to think that they are not true.

Carry on...

Fish on...

Todd