Not to Slam you or what you do Native Pride but what does half mean?
Do you remember this summer when the WSDF&G and the tribal fisheries said how the Chinook run was going to be bigger then they expected in the elliot bay. After the Muckle shoot tribe did there test fisheries. So they went and opened up the bay for boats and to find out that they never got their escapement so they closed it down. The seattle times along with the WF&G had noted the tribes got 6,000+ and the sports men had close to a 1,000(986?) how do you get half out of this.
This year the Muckle shoot tribe was also involved in setting a maze of nets in Elliot bay from October to November along Pier 91 and the inlet trapping all the salmon from leaving with the dumping of 3 baby seals on shore. The muckle shoot tribe had a lot of problems with Foss too, when they deceided to tie up their nets so the tugs could not get out Some days there were more then 10 seperate nets strong along the Bay including along the shoreline and the piers. And all this for what to sell salmon at a price that is not even worth the price of Diesel.
The honest truth may never come out on what posses the Idiot (jeff Koneig) and others to think they can harvest like this for sports and commercial before they meet there escapements, I guess you need deep pockets to understand.
I really do not believe they understand what half is nor do they understand what the tribe had caused in the inlet.

Also I know that there is a talk about how we can maybe pay the Natives not to fish.
I beleive that this will not work till we can fully understand whats involved.
Here is an example, When some not all, commercial boats in Alaska had slow times(when they were not fishing for their target) they would start to fish for a species that they had license for but the fish brought no value to the company and in most cases they could not even break even and lot of them lost Money. The reason they would do this is so they would not lose their license to fish for a certain species, as long as you paid and used it it would not expire so to speak. So year after year they catch this fish just to keep the license so maybe in the future they can actually sell this fish and would have a license and there would be a good chance not too many other lic. would be avaliable. But in the mean time screw the worthless fish who cares we dont want to lose the lic.
As this was applied to Non native netting but I believe that their is some same factor behind the motives of the Natives to not sell the rights and yes some has to do with tradition but not all.
I wish I could come up with an idea that was going to help and I can't seem to figure out what it is. Communications help along with educating the masses but some things are hard to change.