The argument is not over, just the request for relief (TRO). Judge could not have compelled Lang to open setnetters on the Eastside of CI, just to rescind an arbitrary emergency order that closed the fishery before the peak after harvesting just 32 kings while exceeding escapement thresholds by 700%.
Seems like a poorly thought out closure. The Emergency Order closed the set net people but not the drift net fleet (not to mention the GOA trawl fleet). Fisheries management is all about politics with a surface coating of science.
Washington banned set nets with fish traps, along with fish wheels and any other type of fixed unattended fishing gear, with the voters initiative 77, in 1934. When Alaska banned fish traps with Statehood in 1959, the politicians forgot about why set nets, fish wheels and other types of fish trap were not banned. As the population of Alaska swells, the population of King's decline. It works the same every place. The voter in Alaska was denied by a Court to ban set nets, when a set netter on the Alaska Supreme Court from Iowa, thru Dillingham ruled that the King escapement on the Nushigak didn't matter either? Voters are only allowed to ban certain types of fishing gear in Alaska, and building more Chinook Motorhomes will only increase this problem, with people elected to office from the oil industry who could care less about the future of all natural resources. When found too stupid to read, breed another user group and call it personal use, from the Alaska Oil Patch.
The argument is not over, just the request for relief (TRO). Judge could not have compelled Lang to open setnetters on the Eastside of CI, just to rescind an arbitrary emergency order that closed the fishery before the peak after harvesting just 32 kings while exceeding escapement thresholds by 700%.
ReplyDeleteI dont see a way to win this. What is the argument; that kings dont matter just so long as setnetters get to fish?
ReplyDeleteSeems like a poorly thought out closure. The Emergency Order closed the set net people but not the drift net fleet (not to mention the GOA trawl fleet). Fisheries management is all about politics with a surface coating of science.
ReplyDeleteWashington banned set nets with fish traps, along with fish wheels and any other type of fixed unattended fishing gear, with the voters initiative 77, in 1934. When Alaska banned fish traps with Statehood in 1959, the politicians forgot about why set nets, fish wheels and other types of fish trap were not banned. As the population of Alaska swells, the population of King's decline. It works the same every place. The voter in Alaska was denied by a Court to ban set nets, when a set netter on the Alaska Supreme Court from Iowa, thru Dillingham ruled that the King escapement on the Nushigak didn't matter either? Voters are only allowed to ban certain types of fishing gear in Alaska, and building more Chinook Motorhomes will only increase this problem, with people elected to office from the oil industry who could care less about the future of all natural resources. When found too stupid to read, breed another user group and call it personal use, from the Alaska Oil Patch.
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