Puget Sound Salmon Fishing Given Green Light in Many Areas with More Openings Scheduled July 1
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Seattle Times] Mark Yuasa-June 28,2016
After a two month delay, NOAA Fisheries has given state Fish and Wildlife the approval to reopen sport salmon fisheries effective immediately.
“This opening puts the year’s salmon fisheries back on track,” John Long, a state Fish and Wildlife salmon policy coordinator said in a news release. “I know it has been a frustrating start to the salmon season for anglers fishing in waters around the Sound.”
The negotiations that began in early March between state and tribal fishery managers was the most protected in history, stretching far deeper into the spring than in the past three decades of such talks, and one of the most contentious...
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