Potential Closure to ALL Sport & Commercial Fishing in Puget Sound?

To save Rockfish... Say it isn't so...  http://salmonchronicles.com/2015/04/28/will-noaa-end-all-fishing-in-puget-sound-to-save-endangered-rockfish/

I participated in the tagging program for this study.  We fished a full day on Puget Sound waters for local rockfish.  I had no idea it would go this direction.  What's next...?

Unbelievable...

The author of the linked salmonchronicles article refers to getting an email saying that NOAA was going to close off all the fisheries.  The actual NOAA publication (put out last November) says *nothing* about closing off anything - the report is data, not enforcement/regulations.  The report does indeed cover designation of what they would consider critical habitat, but it does not push fisheries as a fix.  It does talk about fisheries as one of the numerous factors that might affect the fish (mostly about derelict nets, just a sentence or 2 about recreational fisheries), but small sections.  And, they are *required by law* to cover all of the possible factors. 

Any potential regulatory actions would come after the public review/comments/alterations of this data report.  Rather than raise a hue and cry about "Oh **** they're closing off everything!" let's be aware of the process, be involved in the input from a fisheries point of view, and work within the process to keep things as good as they can be kept. 

Jim