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Subject: That might explain why you thought he fished in a certain manner

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Date Posted: 09/11/06 1:16am
In reply to: So unloved 's message, "Believe me, I don't like them either" on 09/ 8/06 5:40am

Maybe you fished with him during a different season? There is no way that, on a consistent basis, a fisherman pulls just seven sturgeon out of his net when he is in the river in the fall. It usually is between 10-50 but I have been on a boat when it was hundreds and you want them out as quick as you can because all they are doing is taking up room for fish that there are actually a market for. On the other hand if you throw them out right where you set your net out they are just going to end right back in your net. It isn't good for the fish to be grabbed by the gills over and over again as they are pulled out of the net, either. So, it isn't in the sturgeon's best interest of survival to be thrown back into the same area over and over again.

Fishermen don't have a reason to keep such a huge catch of illegal fish. There's no market for them and there's way to many to take to friends and family for "gifts" so its a ridiculous claim that these fishermen are purposefully catching/keeping the sturgeon for any reason.

This is why fishermen are having a hard time believing you. Your having a hard time believing fish and wildlife agents are pressured by sports fishermen lobbyists to concoct violations against commercial fishermen because if facts were looked at people could see that sports fishermen get more violations by a margin of atleast 10:1. But the thing of it is that its neither the sports or the commercial fishermen that are causing the fish to disappear on the river it is the dams. ALL of the fishermen know that but BPA would have the sports and the commercial and native fishermen all at one another's throats right and left rather than joining together to go after the power companies and their dams who are the true culprits.

We'll sit here in little pissing matches while they get away with the rape of the river.

PIRATES on the Columbia illegally taking and destroying our fish? Look to the dams, the companies that need them for their incomes and the politicans who's pockets are lined with their lobbyists' monies!

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