T&T: Sport Fishing in Turmoil

[Dave Clark]

Mike

I loved it! The only thing you left out is that if you are a "native American"
none of the rules apply. Thank you judge Bolt. In our home area of the NW San
Juan Islands the crab ad shrimp seasons have become so restricted some of us
are considering $100 Canadian licenses and then boat 6 miles away where we can
fish them year round. Same crab and shrimp.

Dave Clark
ADAGIO
41 President
lying Tall Timbers MD

Message: 35
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 13:20:26 -0700
From: Mike Maurice <mikem at yachtsdelivered.com>
Subject: T&T: Sport Fishing in Turmoil
To: TT <trawlers-and-trawlering at lists.samurai.com>
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The fishing seasons in Oregon for Salmon and other species is chaotic
enough that many people are dissuaded from the effort to go fishing, due
strictly to the difficulty of knowing when they can fish and what the
rules are.

This is a tongue in check hypothetical scenario:

The salmon season is open on Wed and Saturday from 3 pm to 9:35 pm for
silver salmon. You may use one hook, but it may not have a barb, or a
curve of less than 3 inches radius. You may only keep per day one fish
caught, if it's adipose fin is clipped and it was hatched on a Monday.

In addition, only green colored boats are allowed to fish on Wed., not
Saturday. Boats fishing on Saturday must be painted chartreuse color.
"Hot colors" are not allowed. Additional regulations may be put into
effect without prior notice and be retroactively enforced, which may
include a provision excluding fishermen whose birth dates are odd or
even numbered. If the odd/even regulation is implemented, the language
to be used shall be of such an ambiguous nature that any interpretation
will be acceptable.

If the regulations regarding the fishing for salmon should by some
unforeseen chance become intelligible to anyone with a grade school
education, the commission will make every effort to scramble them in a
manner to make them, once again, unintelligible.

Anyone caught taking the regulations or these explanations seriously is
guilty of a misdemeanor and will be keel hauled and their fishing
memories deleted for the past 10 years, or until such time as they no
longer pose a threat to peaceful fishermen.


I really got an earful talking to the coastal fuel dock and harbor
people this morning.

Regards,
Mike