Right on Salmo. I have written posts long ago suggesting Indian dipnetting (soft mesh) and commercial trapping at the Bonneville and John Day dam fish ladders, so as to enable release of native fish. The gillnets are just a senseless albatross. ...

ds, the Indians aren't getting their lawful 50% share of the fish. They are getting way over that in most places. In the Columbia, (Yakima, Umatilla, Warm Springs, other? tribes), they are getting a 13% ESA impact for netting the current springer run, while the non-Indians get a 2% ESA impact. Commercials about 1.1% and us sportfishers get 0.9%. As the Saturday Night Live character the 'Church Lady'
would say "Well, isn't that special! How conveeenient." What [Bleeeeep!]!