5-35 cents a pound?

[finclipped]

It just doesn't seem logical to promote commercial harvest over sports angling. Check out this aricle on how the commercial fisherman can get 5-35 cents a pound for netted fish. Tules are killed and thrown overboard. http://www.newsdata.com/enernet/fishletter/#1

[Point-of-Sale Clerk]

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife's Joe Hymer said there was evidence of dumping in both the non-Indian and tribal commercial fisheries. Hymer said 500 dead tule chinook reportedly had been seen floating behind Bonneville Dam, evidently discarded by unhappy harvesters in the tribal fishery. "You've got to feel for the guy who hauls a 30-pound tule to the fish buyer and gets $1.50 for it," Hymer said. "Guys are hauling one or two full totes of fish into the buying stations and leaving with only 80 to 90 dollars in their pocket." Hymer said he had also heard that difficulties with wholesale buyers had left some tribal fishers with fish in their nets and no place to sell them.


Yeah ya gotta feel for the guy
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[BottomFeeder]

That's because it aint. Just give it time, the commericals will fade away into financial ruin. Then they will have to pick up where they left off in grade school, earn an education and get real jobs like the rest of us. I have nothing but illwill and contempt for people who kill salmon and let them float downriver.

-BottomFeeder

[Trick]

Farm Salmon, which I have a some problems with, are not going away and grow more each year. Commercial fishing as we know it, is done. Look at groundfish problems and now this.

I agree that it is a sick state of affairs when millions are spent every year to flush salmon down river and the adults are tossed dead into the river. :mad:

As the money continues to dry up I think you'll see the lobbyists for the commercial interests dissappear. Hopefully we can be organized enough to step and take their place.

The next few years ought to be interesting....maybe someone can buy up old gillnet boats and turn them into charter boats for the river?

[4Salt]

I realize that Tule's are the native chinook stock in the lower Columbia, but I'm curious as to why the tribes haven't lobbied the feds to raise URB's at the Spring Creek hatchery instead?

[Sublime]

okay, yet ANOTHER silly question... What are 'Tule' salmon?? I haven't heard the expression before. Sorry to be ignorant, I would just like to learn more :smile:

[Sublime]

shoot, must've just been too late in responding...now I know...

[chromebright]

Most of the tribal fishing goes on above the spring creek hatchery. There is less than 20 miles of tribal fishing from Bonni to Spring Creek so they do not really have a huge stake in what is raised. Maybe they will someday take it over like a lot of other hatcherys and start raising something better. The flip side is that I have been told that the Tules from Spring Creek help sustain our treaty with Canada, allowing more of our good fish to return to our waters.