1. Concept sound good …. I've watched how wild fish are taken from a gill net, this is a better way

2. Strict standards must be in place.... set number of "traps", gill netting reduced until its 0 on the NT side.

3. Low holding, can be less painful by a lottery type system....Let's say there are 5 active traps, 100 NT netters, …. that's 20 netters per trap, paint 20 balls 5 different colors, assign each active trap a color......put all the painted balls in a container.....have each NT netter draw from the container, that would be his trap.


The drawings would have to be done quite often.....weekly ???? That way during a run, chances of having the "hot trap", would be shared.


Problem???? Yea, some one could get lucky and draw the "hot trap" more but that's life.


Would be easy to monitor, video cams could be used.


Sure would be a "up to date", current, of the amount and species of fish in the river system.


Sure would be nice to see all steelhead, released and not have to do the "gill net" show.