we need a salmon/steelhead summit meeting ....with california, oregon, washington, BC and
Alaska ... with commercial , tribal, sport, biologists, representatives and reps for all other impacted groups such as farmers and the timber industry(wich by the way has killed billions of fry thru dramatically increased flooding).. One point that everyone should remember is that damms kill more salmon every year than all tribal sport and commercial fishing combined!!! we need to get all nets out of our rivers no matter what color the skin the environmental terrorist has who is running the nets. we need to open up all our rivers to 100% of there original spawning grounds. The little goose damm on the snake cut off 2300 miles of spawning territory. all that aside... if you promise to help stop indian netting of wild fish for a few years, i will help stop white commercial from taking any wild fish for a few years until we can get our runs stabilized. One thing I learned as a lobbyist is that the government very deliberately tries to pit groups of competing interests against eachother. I watched them do that with the spotted owl issue. It had nothing to do with envoro's vs loggers. logging unemployment rose 15% durring those years but they cut 25% more trees than ever. we cannot fall for that. We need to stay focused on the real culprits and most of them are in washington dc.