NOAA is in "Vendetta mode" on this issue.
While at the NOF meeting in California, a sportfishing rep was congratulating a member of WDFW's Sportfishing Advisory Board on keeping the west side of San Juan open. A NOAA Biologist turned to them and said "Just wait until you see what we have in store for you next year"....
Great, just frickin' great... Thinly veiled threats from a government official who is obviously taking this very personally.
Again I ask: In a orca population that has been increasing in the past ten years..
WHERE IS THE PROOF THAT EXCLUDING VESSELS BENEFITS ORCAS???Answer: There is no proof...We've asked NOAA time after time and they still cannot provide a shred of evidence. Junk science, assumptions and an agenda that does not include sportfishing.