Fish and wildlife managers rule with abnormal choices so we fishermen get to keep losing. By their creations, we fractured gene pools with fish from hatcheries and allowing gill-netting of rivers. They give rules out on what they created — an almost extinct overabused and misled resource. They sensationalize all fish that still are mixing with fish from hatcheries and identify it as wild. For centuries fish, some from non-natal water, have mingled. It is not possible to keep selective fish separate.
Lowering numbers in propagation means less fish overall to spawn. Yes, we should help wild fish, but reliance on them is a disaster. Wild fish in favorable places are just barely surviving their environment, then they are harvested — and not by us fishermen.
Hatchery reform needs to be trashed. Listed fish needing propagation get nothing. We are executing successful hatchery fish when they should face the creator. We are pathetic. What is coming is inevitable.
I want to vote for a sport fishing representative to address this mental madness and escort this management to be respectful. What we are getting is deception.
