Holly molly! This article makes a person stop and think about the endangered salmon on the Columbia River system.
I realize that in my stopping of sport fishing for salmon/steelhead would be a miniscule way of abiding by this effort to save the salmon. I could easily be pursuaded to do a catch and release (which I do most of the time anyway). My main gripe is that I do not support the fishing nets by the Native Americans and the comercial fishing that have little interest in the fish besides a way to make a dime. If the Native Americans want their treaty rights than by all means keep what you catch by the way your ancestors did it. Spears and or fishing poles like the sportsman are required to do.
Get rid of the nets and get rid of the trollers and impose a catch and release program than we just might see a turn around of the salmon/steelhead into the Columbia River system.