The public WDFW crab
meetings went pretty well and we are still
working with the commission on the issue of
gaining more recreational crab quota. PSA now
has Votervoice and we will be using it as
important issues come up. This is a computer
internet program that you sign in and use our
premade letter, enter your personal info, and
send it. The computer program automatically
sends this letter on your behalf, to your
representatives and senators so that they will
get your message loud and clear. CCA has one and
now PSA does too! It is a great tool for us.
We now have two Rockfish
groups that have been established with in the
WDFW. PSA and CCA both have representatives on
both of them. We have some people on them that
belong to some of our fishing groups, that
think they have the authority to push their own
agenda on behalf of the group they are a member
of. We have had to reprimand them on speaking
on our behalf, without our consent. They have
an agenda to start making fishing closures. They
want us to work with them as long as we do what
they want us to do and not the opposite.
We have a healing Puget
Sound. Hake are starting to reappear on
Possession along with true cod. Small rockfish
are coming back. How great is that? But we
still have groups pushing the commission for
closures even though they are not warranted. Our
120’ line that protects a gigantic portion of
the Puget Sound and ocean is not enough? They
want even more. PSA is working very hard on this
issue to keep us fishing when closures are not
needed.
Please join your local PSA
and CCA Chapters to help us keep fishing. There
are organizations out there that want us not
fishing. Management is what keeps us fishing,
not closures.
