Another good post Salmo. I have suggested those same things in other posts. In fact, so have you - the last time you served them with a little red table wine if I recall correctly? It came out more clearly this time; and it is sound. The biggest challenge would he getting the Col. Treaty Tribes to go along with the modern platform ideas. It does take a little more physical work to save a lot more wild salmon via selective dipnetting. Do they really care enough about the native fish to do even a slight bit more work such as that? Do they want to see a non-Indian sport fishery? I honestly think the answers are NO and NO, for those two matters. ... It's more feasible that the commercial guys could be bought out by selective hatchery fish entrapment proceeds from Bonneville; or allowed to work that type of harvest there instead of in the lower river with nets. I hope something like that happens soon. It really does seem so simple and obvious of a solution. But like you said, the human race has come sooooooooo much farther along technologically than sociologically in modern times. And that's an understatement!

RT