Senators Unhappy With WDFW Columbia Gillnet Buyback Program
When you’re dealing with gillnets, you’re fundamentally dealing with a bunch of knotty holes. You’ll catch a lot of fish, but some might just swim through or around the mesh. That’s more or less what lawmakers and WDFW were left to stew about following a workshop in Olympia Thursday afternoon on the $14.4 million Columbia River voluntary gillnet license buyback proviso passed last year.