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THE COMPACT MEETING TO SET THE SEASONS FOR SPORT AND COMMERCIAL FISHERIES STARTS @ 10:00 ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5 at the Museum of the Oregon Territory located at 211 Tumwater Drive, OR City.
Sportfishermen must pack this meeting and make the same messages that we made in our e-mails:
1) There MUST be a buffer on the commercial fleet, and they must be out of the water by March 15, or when they hit 80% of their impacts on ESA-listed fish. We cannot continue to manage the commercial fleet with the sport fleet as the insurance policy. Two out of the last three years the sportfleet was shut down due to over harvest by the commercial fleet. There must be a buffer, and the gill net fleet needs to get out of the water in time for the sport fleet to to have a quality fishery.
2) It is not fair, nor equitable to shut down thousands of angler trips and put the sportfishing community a step back because the commercial release mortlities are higher than the sport release mortalities.
3) We don't support a trippling of the wild winter steelhead mortalities to conduct the net fishery. Be sure to let your legislators and the departments know that this is unacceptable risk to triple the impacts on wild winter steelhead to conduct an experimental net fishery.
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