<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp526aded9yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><a href="http://www.trinityjournal.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/article_2600c656-1ba6-11ea-b7a3-63c260102475.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.trinityjournal.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/article_2600c656-1ba6-11ea-b7a3-63c260102475.html</a><br></div></div><div><div class="ydp7a037dd7asset-masthead" style="font-family: Lato; margin: 20px 0px 40px; position: relative; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px;"><h1 itemprop="headline" class="ydp7a037dd7headline" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 42px; margin: 0px 100px 0px 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.1; color: inherit;">Trinity River fish decimation</h1><div class="ydp7a037dd7meta" style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 100px;"><ul class="ydp7a037dd7list-inline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; list-style: none;"><li style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><span itemprop="author" class="ydp7a037dd7tnt-byline">From Wolf Vonn Redding</span></li> <li style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">Dec 11, 2019</li> <li class="ydp7a037dd7hidden-print" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><a href="http://www.trinityjournal.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/article_2600c656-1ba6-11ea-b7a3-63c260102475.html#comments" class="ydp7a037dd7cm" title="2 comments" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a></li></ul></div></div><div class="ydp7a037dd7row" style="font-family: Lato; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px;"><div class="ydp7a037dd7main-content ydp7a037dd7col-lg-8 ydp7a037dd7col-md-7" style="position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding-right: 15px; padding-left: 15px; float: left; width: 780px;"><div class="ydp7a037dd7main-content-wrap"><div id="ydp7a037dd7asset-content" data-asset-uuid="2600c656-1ba6-11ea-b7a3-63c260102475"><div class="ydp7a037dd7row"><div class="ydp7a037dd7col-lg-12 ydp7a037dd7col-md-12 ydp7a037dd7col-sm-12" data-subscription-required-class="col-xs-12" style="position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding-right: 15px; padding-left: 15px; float: left; width: 780px;"><div class="ydp7a037dd7asset-body" data-subscription-required-class="asset-body"><div class="ydp7a037dd7share-container ydp7a037dd7content-above" data-subscription-required-remove="" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"><form method="post" data-uuid="2600c656-1ba6-11ea-b7a3-63c260102475" class="ydp7a037dd7save-list-2600c656-1ba6-11ea-b7a3-63c260102475-form ydp7a037dd7save-asset-to-list" action="http://www.trinityjournal.com/users/admin/list/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></form></div><div id="ydp7a037dd7tncms-region-article_body_top" class="ydp7a037dd7tncms-region ydp7a037dd7hidden-print"></div><div class="ydp7a037dd7asset-content ydp7a037dd7subscriber-premium"><div class="ydp7a037dd7subscriber-preview"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">If you are a Trinity River angler, merchant, or concerned citizen, it’s time to address the absolute decimation of fish at the Tish Tang, Hoopa Weir. Yes, it’s politically sensitive, but the taking of (by Hoopa Fisheries’ admission 90 percent) of hatchery steelhead, coho and most of the chinook salmon is their objective.</p></div><div id="ydp7a037dd7tncms-region-article_instory_top" class="ydp7a037dd7tncms-region ydp7a037dd7hidden-print"></div><div class="ydp7a037dd7subscriber-preview"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">To top it off many of the non-native locals yard fish out of the area daily. This is not sustainable, and a disgrace to fisheries management. To see it reminds me of the past videos of Japanese commercial fishermen clubbing dolphins caught in seine nets, but in this case salmon herded behind the weir.</p></div><div id="ydp7a037dd7tncms-region-article_instory_middle" class="ydp7a037dd7tncms-region ydp7a037dd7hidden-print"></div><div class="ydp7a037dd7subscriber-only"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;">This year very few fish made it past the lineup of treble hooks, gill nets, locals and weir (look at upstream Fish and Wildlife Weir data). The quota means nothing, since non-native monitoring of take is not allowed.</p></div><div class="ydp7a037dd7subscriber-only"><div>Yes, the Trinity partially flows through the Hoopa reservation, but it belongs to us all, and we share the fish. With the weir in place, Tish Tang could be considered the new headwaters of the river, since not much gets further upstream. We need constructive solutions to this critical issue.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>