I live on a small stream and got to watch at least 30 pair of coho spawn within 100 yds of my bridge this year. It reminded me of when I was a kid years ago, the creek and even the ditches along the road would be full of fish. Over the years the runs declined to a point where in some years the only salmon you would see were the ones the dogs would drag up. I remember fishing Westport in it's hayday and watched it decline to the point where there was no salmon season and have since fished it in my own boat since it reopened. It seemed to me that there was very large increase in the size of the runs the year they stopped the commercial netting off Vancouver Island. The limits at Westport have become easy and my creek is slowly filling with fish. So to blame just the indians for the fate of our salmon and steelhead runs is not looking at the whole picture. The harvest of bait fish in the offshore waters and in Puget Sound, habitat destruction from poor logging practices, dams and pulpmills all have an effect on the runs. And yes even us sportsman have an impact.