It's amazing to look at the historic pictures of commercial fishing in Puget Sound. Seeing guys waist deep on the deck of boats with Salmon that look to be pushing 30 pounds. Imagine, hundreds of thousands of those fish being taken out of the waters, without a single hatchery fish among them.

And look where we are now...

Yes, it is not right to put the sins of the fathers on the children, but it's also not right to blindly continue to rape a resource just because it is a family tradition.

Gill nets are NOT a solution to the problem, in the salt, or strung from shore to shore across a river.

Implementing and mandating selective fisheries across the board, and smart use of brood stock may not be perfect, but it is a step in the right direction. At least, it might put a finger in the hole until some better solutions are created.