Occupy Skagit - 2014

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For those of you that were unable to attend the meeting, audio transcripts are now available. The Skagit topic begins at around the 13 minute mark and continues through our talks, a talk by Jim Scott and a couple of commissioners right to the end.

Direct link to the transcript:
http://wdfw.wa.gov/commission/meetings/ ... 411_17.m3u

[Robbo]

Thank you once again for your continued efforts to get this great fishery re-opened again. With any luck we'll get to go steelhead fishing again on the mighty Skagit River in the next couple of years

[Nelly]

We are talking with Curt Kraemer of Occupy Skagit right now.
If you miss the interview, hit the Podcast at the link above!

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Great job on the show today!

A little update on some of the behind the scenes activity.

Last week at the Commissioners meeting Director Anderson spoke to us at some length. Included in this was some good news such as; the fishery on the Skagit is getting some serious attention and for a couple of reasons. The science is sound. The co-managers will not oppose the C&R season with the usual caveats. And probably the thing that hit home the most with me is that they believe we, the participants, will steward this fishery and take care of it.

As Curt mentioned on the show today, the idea is for a selective gear rules fishery - like we once had and that was successful for years.

As we have all seen, it takes but a moment to have something taken away...and years to get it back.