One-day season poses dangers

Published 12:01 am Tuesday, May 10, 2011

On Saturday morning my friend and I were setting our shrimp pots. We were complaining that by going shrimping on the day mandated by the state of Washington, it forces people to miss shrimp season or risk there life dealing with very dangerous weather.

Within an hour after the season opened,

three rescue boats and a coast guard chopper show up to rescue four out of five. Can we give shrimpers two days that they choose to go? It’s much safer for everybody to pick a nice calm day for this sport.

John Berg
Everett