The only way the 2% non-tribal share of ESA springer impacts won't be used is by accident...and if that unlikely accident happens, they'll be sure to "fix" it by making sure it gets all used up in subsequent years.

The pipe dream that the allocation of dead ESA springers won't used is just that...a pipe dream...a pipe that's been smoking stuff a lot harder than marijuana.

I appreciate the "cleanliness" of having a much better release mortality for steelhead and sturgeon...but like I've said before, repeatedly, those who are pushing this agenda aren't saying that...they're saying how great it will be for springers and for springer fishing...and those people must have been hitting that pipe hard.

Fish on...

Todd