Originally Posted By: Carcassman
You get more opportunity (time on the water) in MA 9/10. To WDFW that is a win.

WDFW needs to clearly lay out their vision for a salmon fishing future. They have an idea of how much they can produce in the hatcheries, they have recovery goals, they have models into which they can put those numbers and then craft fisheries. What would that give the sporties?

It would also help the sport fishing community to know what the vision for the future is and if they want to be part of it.


Well, sure, more time on the water is clearly the selling point but is it reality or urban legend? That carrot on the one hand yet go to NOF and the battle is on for maintenance of that fishery let alone any expansion either time wise or into 8-2. Did that agreement come with advanced buy in from the several tribes who will benefit? Hard to understand entering into the agreement without having concurrently ensured constituents will benefit without having to fight over it at NOF each and every year.

Oh, and the two tribes opposing the PNP ramp development claiming, in part, that users will somehow adversely impact their ability to exercise their treaty rights will be direct beneficiaries of that increased production in part paid for by sportsmen who would use a new PNP ramp.

And WDFW has a plan????
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