Fava,
I agree with you on getting people from buying wild steelhead. We can protest with fishins and call attention to our worthy cause. With enough public suport the distributor will stop buying the fish. This is well and good but the Native American is still going to net on a daily basis. What they do with the fish only they could tell you and last year we heard the Halibut stories. Believe me it's not a money issue with them as much as it's a rights or way of life issue. Tell me one thing if you lived on the reservation and had that river in your back yard where would you want to be on a daily basis. I know I'd be there fishing every day. The only problem is we taught them how to fish in the most deadly maner.
Let them fish but give them a reason to change their style of netting,(fish traps).
You work in a restraunt how much do you pay the middle man for Salmon? I bet it's a lot,
why not find a way to bypass the distributor and give the native american a good price for their share of the hatchery fish. I think it's the only way that wild fish will swim free.
Want you to know that I wish you sucsess on the fishins and I will be there too if they go off. But I just want you to know it will not solve the problem of Native Americans Gill netting.
Latter
Steve.