“Our fisheries are about jobs,” said California Secretary of Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot near the beginning of the annual Zeke Grader Fisheries Forum being held in Sacramento this afternoon. “They’re about tribal sovereignty, our culture, our identity, our recreation.”

Listening to this, your Lost Coast Outpost — not a regular fisherperson, by any stretch — let its mind wander back to the great time we had a couple of months ago, when the family went out on a Trinidad charter boat and pulled up rockfish after rockfish, every color of the rainbow, until we all fished our limit. We’re still eating those things.

What a blast! We have resolved to do it more often.

What about you? What’s your relationship with fishing? Is it central to your tribal sovereignty, your culture, your identity, your recreation? How often do you fish?