We heartily encourage the Pacific Fisheries Management Council to allow the shortened 10-day recreational fishing season currently under consideration for the Eureka and Crescent City areas, for those economic considerations and other reasons.
Keeping the season open keeps people interested in the North Coast as a potential vacation destination, as a place to come and fish, and spend their leisure time and money.
In addition, it's a quality of life issue for residents here, that we be allowed to fish and enjoy the natural bounty that surrounds us, partaking of a food that is widely considered to be among the healthiest choices possible.
And it appears that allowing people to fish in the period of time between Aug. 29 and Sept. 7 would have little impact on the suffering salmon stocks of the Central Valley.
Our stocks are healthy, so we should be allowed to fish. We've already suffered through one closed season, and are asking now only that we be allowed to keep a short but immensely important sport season.
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