Monies are not distributed evenly within the tribes. So even if you made the marketplace unattractive. That is both local, and foreign markets. And the tribes finally agreed to sell their rights to steelhead. You would have members of the tribe who are not seeing any of this, pay-off, and would continue to harvest fish beyond what they need, to try to make a profit.(road side sales) The whole thing would go back to enforcement and reporting numbers.
I am still surprised that there is no place to get the numbers, of what amount of steelhead are being sold, by each tribe, from what river system. I feel the fishbuyers should provide this information or require it at time of sale. This information should be made publicly available, if the tribes are doing nothing wrong, this shouldn't be a problem. (I am talking honest numbers. X amount of money for X lbs of steelhead. This percentage was wild.)
If you guys organize a protest, that would be great, but I feel there is nothing that will ever be done. A few more years like this years overharvest and I think it will be time to start working on my golf swing, and dust off my snowboard, cause....We lost.