Originally posted by obsessed:
ZoZo
You got to be kidding me. According to your statement, being an Indian and having knowledge of tribal netting makes that Indian guilty of some moral wrong, regardless of whether or not he participates in tribal fishing and hunting. Thats just wrong.
Obsessed, I think that you may have misunderstood what I was trying to say. I in no way meant to imply that being a tribal fishermen in itself is a crime per say, and I'm certainly not saying that just because a person is of Native American decent he or she is guilty of some moral wrong. What I am saying is that it is my belief that the netting of our wild steelhead population is wrong. It just so happens that in this case we are talking about tribal netters. It infuriates me just as much to hear of nontribal netters, as well as sport fishermen taking native fish. To Nativepride: I have no problem with the tribes getting to harvest their " fare share" of steelhead and salmon. What I have a problem with is the manner of harvest, the harvest quantity, and people constantly confusing what is "Legally Right" with what is "Morally Right". A court may have given certain indian tribes the "Legal Right" to hunt elk pretty much whenever they wanted, wherever they wanted. But is it "morally Right" for tribal hunters to shoot a big bull,Peel the back straps out of it, then just drive off, leaving the rest of the elk to rot? Yes, I saw this with my own two eyes.Also, is it "morally Right" for the Skokomish tribe to nett a whole bunch of chrome Fall Chinooks, pull the eggs out, then pitch all the carcasses up into the bushes. When I asked the individuals responsible for this why they weren't going to take the fish, I was told " It's not worth our time to mess with the meat". When I mentioned taking the meat home to smoke it I was told "Sure, you can take all the fish you want.... for seventy five cents a pound." They then went on to inform me that those fish belonged to them and that if they wanted to just leave them to rot they could, because it was their "Legal Right". I am not argueing legallity of what the tribal fishermen are doing, I am appealing to tribal fishermen to stop this kind of wastefull harvesting just because the law allows it.
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