How can you call me a meat fisher when I've never kept a nate? I just think people that choose to should be able to, therefore, I'm against mandatory C&R.

So let me get this straight, you see no difference from a sportsman keeping a fish to feed his/her family and tribal fisherman who kill everything that swims in their net, sell it for under $1 a pound or put the rest to waste? I see a big difference. I would have far less problems with the tribes if I knew they were fishing to feed their tribe/family like they did traditionally. But 2 hundred years ago, they did not sell their catch to the Pike Place Market for $.80 a pound. They did not catch thousands of salmon, strip the eggs out of the hens and leave them to rot on the beach so they could sell the eggs to the Japanese. I see a huge difference between this behavior and a sportsman who wants to keep a fish for the BBQ. And since you said nothing contradicting my last argument, I'm assuming you didn't even read it. Anyone who says that sportsman are to blame for the decline of steelhead runs doesn't know their facts. I suppose we are also to blame for the decline of true cod in Puget Sound? Those bottom draggers had nothing to do with the situation did they?