Big cuts loom for sturgeon fishing

Not even one decade ago the recreational fishery was wide open year 'round. Never exhausting its allocations. The shorter seasons by mid-decade created a frenzied atmosphere that sent fishery effort into a whirling vortex that has imploded upon itself.

CR Sturgeon will survive. CR Sturgeon fisheries may not.

Sure, but the shorter seasons are MUCH easier for them to provide "enforcement". Pack them all in to a small area for a short season like cattle. Then sit in your car eating jelly doughnuts at the boat ramp. When they come in, check them and write any ticket you can to justify your employment! Way easier to handle than a wide open free for all! Hell, they could come out and fish on a day where enforcement isn't even in the boat launch! Cant have that...

Makes perfect sense to WDFW...

enter fuktard comment #1

"We've been fighting to eliminate the oversize fishery since 1984,'' Watrous said. "We even had the gillnetters on board since the start.''


Duh you stupid douchebag ... the gillnetters cant keep and sell the oversize so of course they want the sporties out of the way. Good grief

Fuktard #2

n Closing all fishing for sturgeon on non-retention days. Currently, catch-and-release angling is allowed on days when sturgeon cannot be kept.


Since there is no means of knowing the impact of CnR on the CR strugeon how is this going to have any marginal impact overall? The Snake in Idaho has been CnR fror years and the sturgeon are thriving there. Dumbshit managment in washington again


fuktard #3

Starting a hatchery program. Sturgeon hatcheries are long-standing in other parts of the world.


At somepoint this group of village idiots needs to think outside the box and not immediately go running for another hatchery we cant afford to maintain.




I could go on but it is simply just more bullshit that people have no clue on. They talk about a 3 year plan... brilliant dickheads....brilliant.

Strugeon are not 3-5 dumb salmon, they are 100 - who knows how many year old fish. Try thinking in the actually manner that would help the fish and not the friggin commercials.


Wanna save the sturgeon? KILL the bullshit commercial fishery and make the entire state CnR on all sturgeon. 10-15 years from now it will agian be thriving. Jesus, that was difficult now wasnt it?