YOU GUYS ARE REALLY STARTING TO SCARE ME WITH THIS WITCH HUNT THAT YOU ARE CONDUCTING.I'M SURE YOU READ THIS MORNING P.I. BUSINESS SECTION REGARDING NO NET FISHING FOR SOCKEYE THIS YEAR.

SOME ONE HAD QUOTED THAT 35,000 KINGS HAD BEEN CAUGHT BY NON INDIAN GILLNETS IN THE 98 SOCKEYE FISHERIES AND I THOUGHT THAT IT SEEMED A LITTLE EXTREME THAT IN ALL LIKELYHOOD THAT PROBABLY FEWER THAN 75 BOAT PARTICIPATING IN THAT FISHERIES COULD CAUSE THAT MUCH DAMAGE SO I E-MAILED WDFG AND HERE WAS THERE RESPONSE

Subject:
Chinook catch in the sockeye fishery
Date:
Wed, 25 Aug 1999 16:02:37 -0700
From:
Evan Jacoby <JACOBESJ@dfw.wa.gov>
To:

CC:
COMMISSION@dfw.wa.gov


Dear Mr. Mouse:
Thank you for your recent e-mail to the Fish and Wildlife Commission regarding the chinook catch in the 1998 Fraser sockeye fishery. After 1997, during which 33,100 chinook were taken by treaty and non-treaty fishers combined (about 11,000 by non-treaty fishers), chinook release was required by purse seiners in 1998 and gill net fishers were restricted away from the near-shore areas where chinook were caught in 1997. The total non-Indian chinook catch in 1998 was 65 fish.

I hope this answers your questions.

Evan Jacoby, Legal Counsel

AS SOME OF YOU HAD ACCUSED ME OF BEING AN EVIL GILLNETTER, I AM NOT! I'M AN AVID SPORTFISHER THAT JUST HAPPENS TO FEEL THAT B.A.N. IS A BOGUS INITIATIVE THAT WILL DO NOTHING EXCEPT TO DESTROY A FEW PEOPLES LIVELYHOODS AND PUT MORE FISH ON THE SPORT AND TRIBAL DINNER PLATTER. IF THE NATIVE FISHERIES WERE INCLUDED IN THIS INITIATIVE I WOULD VOTE YES IN A HEART BEAT BUT AS IT IS WRITTEN IT IS A BAD IDEA!!!!!!!!!!!!

VOTE NO