ROSEBURG, Ore. – Two stakeholder teams meet next week for the first time as part of an ODFW process to develop the Rogue-South Coast Multi-Species Conservation and Management Plan (RSP) for winter and summer steelhead, coho salmon and cutthroat trout.

The stakeholder teams convene in Gold Beach and Central Point for an introductory meeting to learn about ODFW’s Native Fish Conservation Policy, the fish conservation and management plan development process and to finalize a charter. Staff is also presenting a summary of fish counts and recent management practices, including current status data for the four native fish in the RSP.

Stakeholder teams represent conservation and angling groups, watershed councils, fishing guides, recreational anglers and government entities. The teams meet with ODFW again in March and April, and staff hopes to have a draft plan ready for public review later this summer.

Meetings are open for observation by the public. Both meetings run 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. and the agenda will be posted online on the RSP website.

We’ll save you the link jump in the vain hope of more information to attend a meeting and form an informed opinion. The agenda below is just as thin and ethereal. This is always done for two reasons, and both are just as repugnant.

NOAA just put Georgia in that very position over a species that accounts for less than 1% of all fish caught anywhere in the state. How well is that whole “Never admit you’re wrong” management strategy really working out for you?

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We publish fisheries practices from around the country. These people have access to the very same, if not better best practices data and make an active choice to ignore it. At some point you have to begin to question whether this situation is a case of incompetency or active professional misconduct leading to department wide performance deficiencies.

Translation: The brain trust that brought you every other fucked up fishery in the state is going to Portland-splain the “right” way to manage a river that merely needs state owned hatcheries and fisheries managers, (them) to actually and successfully do the job they are paid for.

Right now, there is one private hatchery propping up an entire region’s tourism and fish stocking efforts. Meanwhile, a group of ungrateful bastards who are actually paid by tax dollars to produce fish, cry that it isn’t good enough. It’s almost enough to suggest maybe ODFW should get off their asses and break the 2% hatchery survival rate in their own poorly maintained hatcheries for a delightful change.

Comments aren’t being accepted at this stage. You just get to watch the focus group approved gutting of your pastime for the sake of people who will never visit.

• Gold Beach: February 26, Curry Public Library, 94341 Third Street.
• Central Point: February 27, Mace Watchable Wildlife Memorial Center at the Jackson County Expo, 1 Peninger Road.