{"id":8259,"date":"2016-01-06T18:23:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T03:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aksalmonalliance.org\/staging1\/?p=8259"},"modified":"2016-01-06T18:23:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T03:23:56","slug":"ajoc-editorial-time-for-penney-to-drop-vendetta-against-setnetters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aksalmonalliance.org\/staging1\/2016\/01\/06\/ajoc-editorial-time-for-penney-to-drop-vendetta-against-setnetters\/","title":{"rendered":"AJOC EDITORIAL: Time for Penney to drop vendetta against setnetters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bob Penney is now 0 for 2 at the Alaska Supreme Court in his efforts to reallocate Cook Inlet salmon stocks at the ballot box, but he\u2019s not giving up the fight against commercial fishermen.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s past time that he did after some three decades of dividing the community with his nonstop efforts to drive his neighbors out of business and turn the Kenai River into his personal playpen.<\/p>\n

After the court emphatically rejected his ballot initiative that would ban setnetting from Cook Inlet beaches on Dec. 31, Penney released a statement that, \u201cMaybe it\u2019s time the federal government looked into this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later, Clark Penney, the executive director of the Alaska Fisheries Conservation Alliance started by his grandfather to push the initiative back in November 2013, said the group is looking into pursuing an Endangered Species Act listing for Kenai River king salmon.<\/p>\n

Anyone can petition for such a listing, but AFCA will have no better luck with the ESA than it had at the Alaska Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Abundance of the late run of Kenai River kings is no doubt at a low point, but the stock has never failed to meet its escapement goal and in fact returned in strong enough numbers to allow all user groups more liberal harvest opportunity in 2015.<\/p>\n

The early run of Kenai River kings, on the other hand, has failed repeatedly in recent years to meet minimum escapement goals and was closed to all sportfishing in the past two years.<\/p>\n

Notice it hasn\u2019t been closed to commercial fishing. That\u2019s because commercial fishermen haven\u2019t been in the water during the early run for decades as the stock abundance cratered under heavy pressure from the guided angler industry.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s something Penney and his like-minded friends don\u2019t ever talk about because they can\u2019t blame it on commercial fishing.<\/p>\n

Oh, but they can spin a fish tale, though, and never was Penney\u2019s win-at-all-costs mentality more evident than last legislative session when his advocacy outfit led a misleading smear campaign against a well-respected member of the Kenai Peninsula community who\u2019d been nominated to the Board of Fisheries.<\/p>\n

The successful effort by the Kenai River Sportfishing Association to defeat Soldotna habitat advocate Robert Ruffner by a single vote based on a made-up criteria about not living in Anchorage and a ridiculous accusation that he was some kind of Manchurian candidate of the commercial fishing industry was the last straw for many in the community who saw his candidacy as an opportunity to break up what had become a polarized board dominated by factions instead of facts.<\/p>\n

KRSA, which is based in Soldotna, claims to be a conservation organization. The words \u201cKenai River\u201d are in its name. Yet they waged a public relations war against a neighbor and conservationist despite his widespread endorsements from the local legislative delegation, municipal governments, and chambers of commerce.<\/p>\n

And they won, as they often have in the Cook Inlet fish wars they keep fueling.<\/p>\n

A similarly dishonest campaign was waged two years earlier, and succeeded in getting board member Vince Webster booted by an identical 30-29 vote.<\/p>\n

Due to copyright law, the Alaska Salmon Alliance cannot repost full articles. You can read the whole article\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

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