Smalma,

Neither of the things I mentioned were lawsuits...they were just examples of how conservation organizations do work together, and what kind of good things they can accomplish when they do so.

1. PSA and WT worked together for a while (a couple of years, maybe?) to jointly battle some tribal fisheries that were allegedly taking too many fish. No lawsuit, as far as I know, resulted.

2. Many groups, including WT, gathered data, analyzed it, and wrote lots of letters with the conclusions of the analysis to the managers who are in charge of the tangle tooth net fishery on the Columbia. No lawsuit ensued, but the fishery did change, and it changed considerably, due to lots of noise being made about the incidental wild steelhead mortalities.

Fish on...

Todd.