Visit the Pacific Northwest Coastal Conservation Association
Download the application form and hand it out wherever you go. These links will each print two applications on one 8.5" X 11" page. The first link is in PDF and the second is in JPG.
Read the paper I wrote in 1989 during one of the initiative petition drives to eliminate the nets (Click here.) When I began to seriously research this fishery, I was truly appalled at what I found. Frankly, it was difficult to stop at only the "Seven Reasons." The most astonishing thing to me was the history of the gillnetting monopoly. If you look at the historical roots, you'll see that the initial grant of this monopoly came about by outright fraud against the citizens of Oregon. The paper is now almost 20 years old, and I am saddened to see how little progress we've made to demand a non-lethal selective harvest method for anadromous fish in the Pacific Northwest. For pete's sake people, these fish come right back to where they were spawned. Why in the world do we need to put lethal nets out on mixed stocks including highly endangered Salmon and Steelhead runs? It is time to take a serious look at this fishery and ask why it was ever allowed in the first place.
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