Thank God we saved the season, but we didn’t get much of one.

The wet winter does give us time to sit down with them and see how we can meet those requirements.

At this point, our goal is to model whatever season we get so the catch is spread out over the entire fishing period. We don’t want to catch everything at once — we want to...

This is why it’s so important to us to try to get the Klamath restored. We’re talking about most of Oregon and California being shut down by this.

Some are just going to tie up their boats and try to find something else.

The federal government has done absolutely nothing to help, and fishermen are angry. It’s almost like they created this Klamath situation to make them look competent on Katrina.

We warned the (Bush) administration and federal agencies that there would be trouble from their policies, but we were met with indifference, inaction and silence. Unless they start fixing things, we’re not going to be...

For most fishermen, salmon is critical for a major portion of their income. This is a killer. This is a fishery that’s a century old and this is the first time to my knowledge that...

Thank God we kept the season open, but we didn’t keep much of it open.

This is going to be a horrible year. It’s not a total closure, but it’s the closest thing to it.

Year in, year out, salmon is the one that they depend upon. It’s their anchor fishery.

We’ve seen some troubling signs. Like almost every fish and shellfish that uses the bay, Pacific herring depend on a clean estuary with plenty of freshwater inflow to create productive brackish conditions. But as we...