MMouse,

Don't joke me. Sure you're not a gillnetter. Then maybe you're the brother of a gillnetter. In either case, you're so blind you cannot see that many more livlihoods are at stake if the sportsfishing industry in this state is ruined by commercial netting.

By your own figures, the number of netters is small. But the damage they do isn't small. So the whole state; the farmers, builders, loggers, sportsfishers, tackle retailers, and everyone else should suffer the consequences so that the commercial netters don't have to look for other work?

The way I see it, we should try FIRST what preserves the fish runs most and effects the fewest people. Sorry, but the government didn't try to put Henry Ford out of business to try to protect the jobs of Blacksmiths and Buggy whip makers. Clue in, dude. Commercial fishing is a DEAD industry. It is dying on the vine, and BAN is merely speeding up the process of weeding out the diehards that would fight to kill the last salmon on the planet.

Only a MickeyMouse sportfisher would vote against BAN, so I guess your name fits.......


Fish on...........