Regarding the editorial, “Saving state’s wild steelhead”: I’m tired of hearing about the gene idea; makes me want to puke! We have fish on both sides of us (Canada and Oregon); they must have a bunch of different college brains than Washington has. If there are no hatchery fish to feed your protected fish predators, what are they going to eat? Wild fish! We end up with less wilds then we have now. I guess that’s the only way the resources will improve. Starve the predators out, all of them from the 1-pound kingfisher to the 2,000-pound sea lion and in-between. Of course the steelhead will suffer also.
In the past I have caught 100 steelhead a winter! Young fishermen think I’m a crazy old man. In those days 80 percent were hatchery fish. I say “not now”! You’re going to fart around till the resource is gone! What a great sport to watch disappear … like the carrier pigeon.
I feel so fortunate that I lived in the heyday of steelhead fishing. I’m also very convinced that with the new ideas of the Department of Fish and Wildlife, that my grandchildren will never see plentiful fish in the water as I did. What a sorry, sad situation! Makes me sick.
Allen Sherk
Stanwood
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