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Originally posted by Huntar:

-We are allowed, as sports fishermen, to use products that are a result of advanced technology (sonar, Loomis/Lamiglas rods, better hooks, plugs etc...). Don't the natives have the same right to update their products and methods as we?

(edited 03-04-2001).]


A couple of issues with this.

1. When I upgrade my equipment I pay for it. The government buys it for the tribes.

2. The whole argument the Tribes are making is that they want to have the rights to follow their traditions. Well, traditionally, they didn't use nylon nets that are near indestructable and invisible to fish. Basically, they want to be able to fish as they did hundreds of years ago but only with modern technology. The fish runs can't handle it. A single gillnet boat can catch as many fish in one day as the entire tribe would catch in a year 200 years ago.