Re: March 7th - Making Bail, Equipment Failure and other fish stories

Bob wrote:
> On May 10, 7:36 pm, Gordon <gaz...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Gordon:
> 
> Are you LDS?

   No, no wives.

> 
> But back to fish.........
> 
>>   Actually, there use to be bounty on the critters and whether or not
>> you collected the bounty, it was always open season. In fact it still
is
>> in the open sea.
> 
> What ya mean by "open sea" I know the Marine Mamal Protection Act
> covers out to the FCZ or whats called the EEZ now basically 200 mile
> out..
> 
> But are yo saying the high seas ...? Hum I thing the International
> Whalling Commission (IWC) may have some opinion on that. but not
> shure.
> 

   What I meant was all the commercial fishers I know carry and use 
rifles when out of sight of seal huggers. When a king salmon is worth a 
hundred bucks and a seal is trying to make off with it, so long seal.
> 
>>    When they became protected,
> 
> That would be 1972 for the MMPA
> 
> the numbers shot up to where there is no
>> longer enough food to go around and the critters are going up rivers
>> such as the Lewis where they have never been seen before.
> 
> Well Im not sure bout the never been b4. Maybe since the white man
> been around....
> 
> 
>>    They are also destroying the herring runs in Puget Sound. Adult,
>> spawner herring gather in certain areas before spawning and the
>> pinnepeds are devastating them.
> 
> Yup sorta like the Pollock A season in the Berring, since you were on
> the council ya remember the big deal about roe stripping in the 80s
> and early 90s? Looks like seals wernt the only ones gorging and
> ripping out hte bellies n just letting the rest of the fish float off.
> Humm now who would do a thing like that?
> 
> 
>>  Course, less herring, less salmon.
>>   Less salmon, even hungrier pinnipeds.
>>   Believe it or not, in lower Puget Sound, the majority of their food
>> intake is sculpins.
> 
> Cottidae ya mean bull heads???  i use to catch and sell bullheads to
> the UnderSeas gardens for 5 cents each. made enough to buy a burger
> basket and have five bucks in my pocket at the end of a saturday on a
> nickle bullhead.
> 
   Yep, bullheads. They've eaten everything else.
> 
>>   It's kinda like the reintroduction of wolves. All of a sudden they
are
>> everywhere.
> 
> Yes, and the problme is that we have ****ed up the habitat so much
> they tend to adapt as do many top prdetors do.
> 
> 
> 
> Wyoming now has an unrestricted hunt for em. Need the same
>> for the pinnepeds, at least to make the numbers manageable.
> 
> Thats  your opinion. I suggest doing thoes things that would increas
> the salmon runs so the piniped predation is not a problme. but that
> would mean telling the Klamath potato farmers, ranchers, home
> builders, Pendelton wheat famers (Gordon Smilt R, OR) cattle ranchers,
> Tidewater/Foss Tug, Umitilla nation, BPA, Enron/PGE, sprots anglers
> and commercial fishers... etc that their gonna have to stop ****ing
> with my river.
> 
> You can squeeze only so much from somthing before it runs dry.
> 
> 
>>   The one bright light is that it is inevitable that disease will hit
and
>> wipe out the weakest.
> 
> Yup ever so many years Leptospirosis will kick in and will get a dye-
> off.
> 
>>    Yeah, I use to be on the Pacific Fisheries Council and have studied
>> all the background material.
> 
> good. I think it is very im****tant to get politically active.
> What was your background that got you involved??
> 
>>   I also know its hard to go up against pictures of cuddly white seal
>> pups being clubbed for their fur.
> 
> Agreed there...........
> 
> 
> but i could care less if they are eating salmon. If there were enoough
> salnom sealoins would not be an issue.
> 
> too bad the commercial salmon season is closed a ga i n ,
> 
> would you rather have a cheep burger or a salmon season ???
> 
> 
>>   Course, as far as salmon go, the nylon curtains are tough to get by
also.
> 
> dont even get me started on gill net.............. highseas or in the
> COLUMBIA ! there are a ***** to dodge too!
> 
> Although I saw a few river gilnetters were lost last week too. No
> mater our politics they still worked the river and are mariners by
> definition.
> 
> Bob
> 
   Ain't no easy answers.
  Gordon