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This morning, and on a half dozen other days, we saw several hundred small boats moored just off-shore near our house. They were obviously fishing. The boats appeared to be everything from kayaks to boats perhaps about 40 feet in length. At low tide, there were even a dozen or so "waders" who were surf-casting from the shallow water near shore.

I suspect the reason that most of the small boats stay well away from the deeper water near the middle of Puget Sound is that we have a large number of commercial boats and ferries who ply these waters. I'm certain that visibility, especially in the...