Taking the initiative on gill nets

Though the festering issue of commercial gill and tangle netting of salmon and steelhead on the Columbia River must be resolved, a conservation group's plan this fall to put an initiative on the ballot to ban the practice is a mistake.

This kind of complex fish and wildlife issue, which most Oregonians know little or nothing about, shouldn't be resolved at the ballot box. And the sport fishermen cheering now for a statewide vote on gill netting may one day find themselves on the other end of an initiative challenging fishing or hunting practices that are difficult to explain or defend to the larger public.

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