I am not a hateful person nor am I talking personally to anyone, I just want to have my say and let it be heard.
I do not get the reasons behind raising hatchery fish (green river)with wdfg funds (our money) and then we can't fish for kings but indians can, if I do the math : 10,000 Kings @ 15lb average x $2.00lb = $150,000.00 , I'm just curious do they contribute to this hatchery? if they do does anyone know where this info' is, if we can't fish for them what are we doing! also I'd like to see in the history books where and when indians operated casino's back in the days of their forefathers!
My bottom line is this, I was'nt there when the whites came here and neither were the indians of today, I am not sure why we have to carry the burden from those days, I fully support a treaty is a contract and I have no problem honoring it , but where does it stop!
I was fishing the skok' this year with whites on one side indians on the other whites are trying to catch fish by ethical "fishing methods"
indians are on the other with halibut sticks and treble hooks pulling in one fish after the other laughing there a#$es off! then when we walked down rver we seen fish stuffed under the bushes with bellys open and eggs removed (eggs taken for sale) and not just a couple either, LOTS!. seriously, whats up with that!! I don't care what you say ,what the reasons are or whatever but that is not right!
Nobody should be able to disrespect a resource or a creature like that, when white man does that we call them scum bags, but when they do they call it the indian way!
I could write more scenarios like finding elk shot and wasted or deer dumped off in the
ditch or fish by the hundreds rotting in nets (with a bonus catch 2 deer! rotten of course)but why bother! my point is this, we all live in washington my children were born here and I love this state, I own a buisness and I contribute to this states economy, we don't tolerate poachers or people wasting game but yet we give that privilage to them!
I think they have benifited by western civilization and I think we should all live by the same rules, I think that they have supplemented their income with these casinos also. now I'm rambling