searun
Well-Known Member
Bob...over to you? Bob?
I don't think anyone is suggesting Thompson Steelhead are not worth saving - that is a mis-representation.
I think what I'm questioning is the scientific strength to the linkage some are making to mixed stock fisheries and the smoking gun cause of steelhead declines. All the evidence points somewhere else! Why for example, are steelhead in dire trouble on rivers where there is NO commercial fishing? Please answer that, and if you can then maybe there is some truth to what you suggest.
You guys are practicing faith based science here. You believe you know the answer, and are afraid to open your minds to test that belief with other science. Meanwhile, that approach distracts us from finding the actual smoking gun wasting a lot of good time and talent in the process. That is my issue with the legions of doom approach being used to attack FN and commercial fishing as the answer to recovering Thompson Steelhead. Its a fools game IMO because the interception fisheries are now statistically insignificant as a causal factor...and time is indeed running out on finding the real problem, and therefore the real solution.
I don't think anyone is suggesting Thompson Steelhead are not worth saving - that is a mis-representation.
I think what I'm questioning is the scientific strength to the linkage some are making to mixed stock fisheries and the smoking gun cause of steelhead declines. All the evidence points somewhere else! Why for example, are steelhead in dire trouble on rivers where there is NO commercial fishing? Please answer that, and if you can then maybe there is some truth to what you suggest.
You guys are practicing faith based science here. You believe you know the answer, and are afraid to open your minds to test that belief with other science. Meanwhile, that approach distracts us from finding the actual smoking gun wasting a lot of good time and talent in the process. That is my issue with the legions of doom approach being used to attack FN and commercial fishing as the answer to recovering Thompson Steelhead. Its a fools game IMO because the interception fisheries are now statistically insignificant as a causal factor...and time is indeed running out on finding the real problem, and therefore the real solution.