Oregon Proposing New Guide Permit and Regional Endorsement System

A proposed bill being
drafted for the Oregon Legislature would cap and eventually reduce
the number of professional salmon and steelhead guides in Oregon, and
regulate them as an industry.

Born from
within the guiding industry, the effort seeks to ban new guides from
joining the guiding world for
five years and allow the guide pool to drop from roughly 800 to 550
through attrition.

The bill would also seek to reduce pressure
on certain salmon runs at by requiring additional fees
and permits for guides who stray from their home waters and guide in
other regions of the state.

LINK (Via: The Mail Tribune)