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Enough fish for everyone  An Outdoor View  Posted: August 3,
2012 - 8:16am  You hear it at Alaska Board of Fisheries
meetings. During the public testimony part of the goings on,
after most everything has been said on the subject of how the
board should allocate salmon, some naive soul inevitably says,
“There’s enough fish for everyone.”  I thought about that remark
Wednesday while listening to fish board members discussing Cook
Inlet salmon fishing issues in a teleconference meeting. No
public testimony was taken, but if any had been, no one would’ve
said there was enough fish for everyone.  What’s “enough” and
who is “everyone”?  This year many Kenai Peninsula residents
have all the sockeyes they want to eat, but they haven’t been
able to fish for kings.  If you’re an east-side setnetter who
was allowed to fish only one opening this year, you definitely
haven’t caught enough reds.  “Enough” has many meanings. My home
freezer has enough room fo