Yes, FJ, BUT she still also chooses to advertise her business with NET-CAUGHT FISH! As a sport guide who gives a hoot about the resource, thats about the most morally wrong thing you could do.

CF ... I'll call BS on your statement that it's theirs to do with it as they want. Remember the upper Quinault and the Queets are both within Olympic National Park ... that belongs to EVERYONE! and PS, you don't need a lic. there either

Now, I'll admit I don't follow matters as closely on these streams as I do on the ones in my immediate area ... isn't it true that the Quinault tribe contniues to net the Hump even though its poor returns have forced closure of the river nearly every year? Wasn't the entire Queets system shut down to fishing early last year??

"But it's increased the last couple of years ..." . That's like saying two is more than one! the last ten years have seen some of the lowest reruns ever recorded.

Sad to think that tribal managers for the Queets have come to the conclusion that 2500 is the target escapment for the largest river on the OP. A river that lies nearly entirely within the Park offering some of the best habitat that Mother Nature has to offer. That leaves one factor: HARVEST!

Hell even the WDFW thinks there ought to be close to twice the number that the tribe does, and most question the validity of their goals to start with!

Hatchery production is not a replacement for wild stocks, I don't think anyone will argue that point ... yet, for the most part, that's what we're looking at here. Potter herself has stated that 80% of the hatchery fish are not clipped ... so how does mess up the counts of what is actually returning to the systems to start with??

Another point ... supporters of this fiasco always seem to point at all these programs that they have to enhance things. Again, hatchery production is not the answer and in addition, I would bet (a pretty safe one), that the US Gov't is the initally fiancier of most of that production anyhow. The Quinault Tribe will "take credit" for it, but it's you and I that pay for it.

CF - In repsonse to one your statements - "And one other thing...", just so you know, my other half is native too and she dislikes this commercial harvest of steelhead thing as much as I do! It's not the who, it's the what's being done!

For those that keep throwing up the race card in this, shame on you! This has nothing to do with race, it has to do with the fish and the impacts upon them. Netters could be white, black, purple, or green and it wouldn't matter one bit!