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<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">Ditto that for non fin clipped coho in the ocean also! Ditto that for all wild fish.King asked sportsmen to consider a regulation that does not allow fish to be removed from the water prior to being released.
Some sportsmen net non-clipped spring chinook, flop them in their boats, remove the hook and return the salmon to the river instead of leaning out the boat and taking out the hook.
<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">Sportsmen fish from Feb-late June that is 5 months of fishing and all we end up with is 7,000 more fish than a 2 week netting cycle?!!In 2002, the allocation plan worked fairly well, with the sportsmen harvesting 21,600 chinook and the commercials 14,200.
<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">How about all the steelhead and sturgeon they killed at the same time? How out of balance was that? Sounds like another argument for harvesting salmon from the fish ladders at the dams.Jack Marincovich of the Columbia River Fisheries Protective Union, an Astoria-based commercial fishing group, called the harvest of 18,000 by the sportsmen and 3,200 by the commercials "out of balance.''
<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">This was just 1 small chain with 2 locations! What impact did it have on Joes or the area as a whole?Dan Grogan, president of Fishermen's Marine and Outdoor, a north Portland sporting goods store, said the restrictions on spring chinook fishing plus the closure of sturgeon fishing cost his store $500,000 in lost sales.
<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">Pretty funny that the netters get $4 to $5 a pound, but I can buy the same fish at Albertsons for $4 to $5 a pound. Apparently the fish brokers and Albertsons aren't making any profit (and are losing money because they have to transport, refrigerate, and package the fish).Columbia River spring chinook are the among the finest salmon in the world. They spark 170,000 or more fishing trips in March, April and May between Astoria and Bonneville Dam. They also are prized by commercial fishermen, who get as much as $4 to $5 per pound for spring salmon.
<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">Apparently Jack fails to recognize the fact that the netters were shut down because they had killed their quota of wild fish. Fishing with hook and line we can be more selective about which fish we kill (yes I realize there is some hooking mortality).Jack Marincovich of the Columbia River Fisheries Protective Union, an Astoria-based commercial fishing group, called the harvest of 18,000 by the sportsmen and 3,200 by the commercials "out of balance.''