SaltyAlice
Well-Known Member
TL;DR: I want to pay more for my salmon stamp, it's way too cheap. Read on...
With the issues surrounding chinook and the SRKW I have been wondering about approaching the issue in a similar way to airlines with their "carbon neutral" fees. When you fly most airlines you have the option of paying a few bucks to offset the carbon impact of your flight. The efficacy of these fees is debatable but I was wondering if there might be a comparable model we can use for chinook?
Personally, my goal is to put more back into the system than my family takes out by way of donating time and money to salmon-related programs.
Trolling around for chinook is an expensive hobby, but one that is important to myself and vast numbers of coast communities and businesses. The license fees are extremely low when compared to even a single day's gas, not to mention the cost of gear, bait, maintenance, moorage, and the boat itself. How much would a salmon stamp need to be in order for the license to become neutral, or better yet, mean that more salmon resulted from sportsfishing?
If the very act of getting out on the water and fishing for chinook resulted in a net increase in the number of chinook AND coastal communities could continue to benefit from the economic activity, it would be near impossible to logically shut it down.
How much would you pay if salmon stamps definitively meant that your fishing put more in than you took out and protected coastal communities futures?
Edit: the concept here isn’t a secondary stamp. It would be to increase the price of all annual salmon stamps to a level that ensures the sport could not be called into question with regards to sustainability. Controversial I know, but worth batting the idea around amongst ourselves.
With the issues surrounding chinook and the SRKW I have been wondering about approaching the issue in a similar way to airlines with their "carbon neutral" fees. When you fly most airlines you have the option of paying a few bucks to offset the carbon impact of your flight. The efficacy of these fees is debatable but I was wondering if there might be a comparable model we can use for chinook?
Personally, my goal is to put more back into the system than my family takes out by way of donating time and money to salmon-related programs.
Trolling around for chinook is an expensive hobby, but one that is important to myself and vast numbers of coast communities and businesses. The license fees are extremely low when compared to even a single day's gas, not to mention the cost of gear, bait, maintenance, moorage, and the boat itself. How much would a salmon stamp need to be in order for the license to become neutral, or better yet, mean that more salmon resulted from sportsfishing?
If the very act of getting out on the water and fishing for chinook resulted in a net increase in the number of chinook AND coastal communities could continue to benefit from the economic activity, it would be near impossible to logically shut it down.
How much would you pay if salmon stamps definitively meant that your fishing put more in than you took out and protected coastal communities futures?
Edit: the concept here isn’t a secondary stamp. It would be to increase the price of all annual salmon stamps to a level that ensures the sport could not be called into question with regards to sustainability. Controversial I know, but worth batting the idea around amongst ourselves.
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