Saying that habitat doesnt stop at the waterline, an initiative petition
is being circulated in Washington state that would ban commercial gillnets
and other net fishing in Puget Sound and on the Columbia River. A bill
introduced in the 1999 Oregon legislature seeks similar protection of salmon
by also banning the nets.
Of both efforts to ban commercial net fishing, Steve Fick, president
of Salmon for All in Oregon, said the gillnet fishery is the most selective
and the most managed …
