Voters in Washington will decide next week whether the state should
ban commercial gillnets and other net fishing in Puget Sound and, perhaps,
on the Columbia River.
Initiative 696 has recently been picking up speed with voters and gained
the endorsement of The Columbian in Vancouver, Wash. as well as the support
of environmental and fishing groups.
It also has received some unexpected opposition from the Sierra Club
and the Seattle Audubon Society, which oppose I-696 because the …
