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Thursday
Jan212010

Early 29 pounder bites the dust on the Hoh

A magnificent fish meets a sad end in a Lower Hoh tribal gill net.

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Reader Comments (14)

Nice fish! I hope it still taste good.

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterHillary Clinton

how much per pound this year?

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered Commentermax

such a shame

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered Commenterjoker status

Sad...very very sad

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterWookie

dip nets, gill nets, same thing right?

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered Commenters

7 a pound at Pikes Place!

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterJIM

He's smiling cause he knows the $25 he'll get from the fish buyer will MAYBE pay for the fuel he used to catch it. What a freaking waste.

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered Commenterkosel80

catch it with a rod - then I'll be impressed

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered Commenterspanks

take those people off the endangered list and put the fish on

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered Commentertmc551

Happens every year on the Columbia River with late Idaho B-run fish that get caught in floating nets that the tribes have out for Sturgeon in February.

What's that you ask, floating nets for bottom feeding Sturgeon? There should be a law against that or something.

$40,000 spent on recovery per returning fish (one figure I've heard) and they get 2.35/lb.

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterSTC

The native american in the picture deserves that fish more than anyone I know.

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterHillary Clinton

The native american in the picture deserves that fish more than anyone I know.
January 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterHillary Clinton

by Hillary Clinton, Bah HA HA HA HA HA what a piece of work...

January 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterDesertGhost

They should have to use traditional fishing methods, spears, wooden pens, or whatever. Nice fish!

January 22, 2010 | Unregistered Commentersaamde

The true irony here resides in the fact that sport fishing pre-catch/release and size requirements effectively reduced the gene pool of aged specimens/trophy fish. The best have been hunted nearly out of existence. Native peoples knew how to manage resources and their population numbers were not large enough to threaten any fish or animal used for food. This is where we are folks. Reduce the world's population by half and watch the earth/nature re-balance itself. Overpopulation is the problem here. We are our own worst enemy.

January 23, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterAncientCreel

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