Keta: You have a point with the whole communal catch thing. Traditionally, the tribes (pacific northwest, anyway) have lived a communal type lifestyle, with a few hunters or fishermen doing all of the harvesting and the catch being divided up amongst the entire tribe. Here lies the problem: If traditionally the tribes lived communally, then way do they have a problem with that same lifestyle now. After all isn't "tradition and heritage" one of the main buzz phrases for the tribes when it comes to defending the means by which they harvest fish and game? If this is true, then why do the tribes have a problem with doing what is actually more in line with tradition than what they ar doing right now? What is more important? Is it the ancient ways of the tribes,many working together for the good of the entire tribe? Or is the whole tradition thing just a front, something easier and more nobel sounding than "Hey, the Japenese are giving me $10.00 a pound for these eggs. Go get your own net! It certainly brings an interesting thought. If we as sportsmen continue to question the tribes in their fishing and hunting practices eventually they will be forced to give an honest answer as to why they are doing the things they're doing. Eventually they will be forced to admitt that "culture" has nothing to do with it. They'll be forced to admitt that the only reason that the nets are there is in the name of a few dollars, and that's fine, just as long as they don't sit back and talk about how nobel a thing tribal netting is and how splendid it is that the y are able to continue to realize this "tradition".