anglin- I ask this in all seriouseness since I know you know what your talkin about when it comes to nets. do you mean that they can never be stopped because of the way politics and money work? or do you mean that due to the way the treaties were written ? like no matter how many people protest it , it wont change the legal contract of the treaty? I dont understand how there is any commercial season at all on ESA listed fish. there was no commercial season on spotted owl or any other ESA listed animal. its amazing how minds change when money is at work. But if the tribes decided to stop netting ESA fish, it would leave egg on the face of white commercial if they continued to do it. and it would show that tribal leadership is light years ahead of our own government when it comes to managing resources.