The Outdoor Line Forum

We need your participation at the Skokomish River at George Adams Hatchery on July 30, at 1 PM. We cannot allow river closures by certain tribes to shut us off the rivers to our hatcheries. The news media will be there. Please join us. The Skokomish tribe has had the Skokomish river deemed theirs by the Solicitor General and are not allowing any fishing from the river. This can be disputed long term but short term they are kicking us off the river. This is becoming a precedent from some tribes to start claiming rivers and remove access to our fish.
In a June 9 op-ed article, published in the Shelton-Mason County Journal, Lorraine Loomis, Chair of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, stressed the importance of cooperation between the co-managers of the salmon resource (Puget Sound tribes and the State of Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife), and the need to work together on fish habitat protection and restoration, as well as seeking greater production of salmon through our hatchery programs. We agree with Ms. Loomis.
We would like to see the Skokomish tribe reverse their decision.
Please click on this link to the PSA state board for more information and address. Also please read our letter to Skokomish Tribal Chairman, Guy Miller, that has the link on the site too:
www.pugetsoundanglers.org

Thanks for the announcement on this issue Fishnut!
It's just not fair that a tribe can "claim" a river and all the State of Washington raised salmon in it!
I've heard calls to start "working with the Tribes" but it's very hard to take those statements seriously when we get an entire river taken away from us!