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Shame on the Kenai River Sportfishing Association<\/strong>
\nMark Richards<\/em>
\nApril 30, 2013<\/p>\n

Original Article Source: Alaska Dispatch<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019m no stranger to fish and wildlife politics, but the Kenai River Sportfishing Association\u2019s (KRSA) recent successful efforts to oust Board of Fish (BOF) member Vince Webster by preventing his reappointment has to take the cake in terms of smear campaigns.<\/p>\n

From the start, KRSA\u2019s \u201caction alert\u201d letter to members and legislators was a complete fabrication. They based the crux of their opposition to Mr. Webster based on the outcome of a proposal put forward by the Alaska Department of Fish & Game. In their action alert, KRSA claimed that Mr. Webster \u201cparticipated in precariously and unnecessarily lowering the escapement goal of Kenai River king salmon during a time of record low abundance and uncertain future production.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unmentioned was the fact that the BOF voted unanimously, 7-0, after weighing all the data and opinion of biologists and managers, to accept the recommendations of the Department and lower the escapement goal.<\/p>\n

Did the other six members of the board not also participate in \u201cprecariously and unnecessarily\u201d lowering the escapement goal? KRSA\u2019s action alert surely makes it sound like Mr. Webster\u2019s vote was an anomaly. And hypocritically, KRSA supported the reappointment of another BOF member who voted the exact same way.<\/p>\n

Due to copyright law, the Alaska Salmon Alliance cannot repost full articles. You can read the rest of this editorial here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Mark Richards is co-chair of Alaska Backcountry Hunters & Anglers www.alaskabackcountryhunters.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The views expressed here are the writer’s own and are not necessarily endorsed by Alaska Dispatch, which welcomes a broad range of viewpoints.<\/em><\/p>\n

As with all the articles we link to on the ASA website, this report does not necessarily reflect the views of the Alaska Salmon Alliance.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m no stranger to fish and wildlife politics, but the Kenai River Sportfishing Association\u2019s (KRSA) recent successful efforts to oust Board of Fish (BOF) member Vince Webster by preventing his reappointment has to take the cake in terms of smear campaigns.<\/p>\n

From the start, KRSA\u2019s \u201caction alert\u201d letter to members and legislators was a complete fabrication. They based the crux of their opposition to Mr. Webster based on the outcome of a proposal put forward by the Alaska Department of Fish & Game. In their action alert, KRSA claimed that Mr. Webster \u201cparticipated in precariously and unnecessarily lowering the escapement goal of Kenai River king salmon during a time of record low abundance and uncertain future production.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"yoast_head":"\nShame on the Kenai River Sportfishing Association - Alaska Salmon Alliance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aksalmonalliance.org\/staging1\/2013\/12\/30\/shame-on-the-kenai-river-sportfishing-association\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shame on the Kenai River Sportfishing Association - Alaska Salmon Alliance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I\u2019m no stranger to fish and wildlife politics, but the Kenai River Sportfishing Association\u2019s (KRSA) recent successful efforts to oust Board of Fish (BOF) member Vince Webster by preventing his reappointment has to take the cake in terms of smear campaigns. 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