PORTLAND (AP) - Three operators of marine businesses whose customers catch salmon for sport say they will no longer buy parts from a member of the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission who voted to increase the percentage commercial fleets can take.

The commission member, John Englund, distributes boat parts from Portland. He was in the majority earlier this month when the commission voted 4-3 on the allocation of Columbia River spring chinook salmon.

Last year, sport fishermen got 60 percent. On Jan. 6, the panel reduced that to 55 percent. The rest go to the commercial gill-netting fleet.

The protesters said in letters that Englund's businesses get much of their income from commercial customers.

“These changes are a direct hit to my business and a direct benefit to yours,” wrote Dan Grogan, president of Fishermen's Marine & Outdoor of Portland.

He said he was canceling his orders with Englund's parts business and Englund Marine Supply, an Astoria-based chain of eight boat supply stores with one in Charleston.

Brian Brush, president of the Roseburg-based North River aluminum boats, canceled his business with Englund Marine Supply and called for Englund to resign.

“This is a battle that Sports Fishermen, The Sportfishing Industry and Salmon will WIN!” Brush's letter said.

Brush said his company had spent $663,336 with Englund in the last three years.

The third to protest the vote was Paul Mayer, president of Stevens Marine Inc. of Portland.

Before the vote, Englund declared a potential conflict of interest as required by law, and did nothing wrong, said commission Chairwoman Marla Rae, who released the letters.