Season ended early, trips cancelled, hearts and local companies…broken.
August 29th, 2008
As I stood in front of my dual screen workstation this morning, I noticed LipRipper across the office coming my way. He had a disgusted look on his face. I asked him what was happening.
He proceeded to explain that the salmon season that so many people had counted on was just ended early. “Tomorrow at Midnight” He said. “A whole week early….outta nowhere. All those rigs on the road, turning around.”
Ended upon a much anticipated holiday weekend that local companies and families depend on every year. A healthy mix of livelihood and recreation. Or not.
“It sure seems peculiar they wouldn’t open the season two days later in order to preserve this much anticipated and planned on holiday weekend” LipRipper lamented.
At the time he told me this I received a call from Big Tone. He was fresh off of four hours of sleep and getting new tires put on his rig. He was ringing me from the waiting room.
“Man, they really screwed us on this one.” Big Tone went on to explain his weekend has been planned with family and friends for six months. Just a real heart breaker for him and all the rest of us. If it’s not this closure it’s another one very soon I’m sure we’ll be talking about.
I hope at least we can all agree that we are indeed a group of people, Sportfishermen, who continue to get ram rodded by our lawmakers. Representation really is everything, isn’t it?
Nice job with the legislation. What a bunch of jokers.
Link to the Columbian’s article on this subject under the “Blogroll” and titled “newspaper fish closure article“.
I’ll keep it there a week or so, so everyone can read it.
H3llcat
Pretty much a joke all around. It sure does make a lot of sense to close it down to the sport fishers, but still allow the nets to be in the river. 14,000 to 15,000 one day with no nets in the river, then aprox. 6,000 the next with nets in. If you think that allowing that many to the commercial guys is okay, and then shut it down to the sportfishermen who won’t come close to those totals in one day is fine then you can lick my salty drizzle. What representation or legislation, it’s all a joke. If it keeps going like this we might a well leave George W. Bush in office until the day he dies. What happen to common sense? It seems like it’s harder to come buy these days then book smarts. I got to get some sleep if I’m going to make it down to Astoria and make the last hour of incomming and maybe the first three hours of the outgoing. I’m out!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by BigTone — August 30, 2008 @ 4:25 am