Hi Mike. This line sound familiar : "gill nets are a selective fishery". That's why the commercials are on the Columbia targeting springers. Ask Pete Knutson if they can't selectively harvest those sockeye. The commercials made verbal comments at the last NOF that they want a part of that fishery - some will argue the sockeye were put in there solely for a commercial fishery. The Lummis, Suquamish, and Tulalips are already starting to target that fishery. I think it's extremely naive to believe that a permanent hatchery is going to create a sportfishery mecca. Ask WDFW for a statement to declare there will never be a non-tribal commercial fishery on sockeye. Sorry - I think those nets will go in and those "ocean conditions" will make the south Sound chinook disappear - after all, how could anyone prove differently?

Sea Fair & sockeye? The Sea Fair Board asked Bern Shanks when he was Director to shut down the sockeye fishery for Sea Fair. They see it as competition. Those fishermen are in the way of Sea Fair - they clog up the parking and don't buy Sea Fair trinkets.