I have fished the Copper since 1968. In those days we fished a 48 hr and a 36 hour period every week. Now if we fish two periods a week it is two 12 hour openers. We also fished nearly to the grass banks.  Now we are forced to risk out lives outside to try to make a living. One boat flipped and the skipper was pulled out of the water. The skipper of another boat ended up in the water and died this last opener. He was a long time friend of mine from back when I started in this fishery. Before the inside was totally closed to us, we were only allowed to fish one opener per week to let extra kings up the river. Then the biologist decided on his own to take even more inside days away from us. Don't tell me that we haven't shared in conservation. You don't know what you are talking about.