CFM, this isn't as much your doing as just an annual thing on this board right around fall king time. The tribes and their nets are highly visible during this fishery and it seems the largest gear and quota conflicts also occur, bending many a nose out of shape. Unfortunately I can't speak with any amount of authority on the treaties although its been explained to me that "usual and accustomed fishing grounds" allow the tribes access to anywhere they fished during the time the treaties were signed.

Before this gets way out of hand I invite Salmo g, who has as much expertise as any on this board regarding the treaties, to give us one of his insightful and broad overviews. Then there will at least be a degree of information on the table to discuss, challenge, agree with, disagree with, etc. This, as oppose to a thread that simply degrades into something that Jerry will have to prune.

As I said, these threads appear every fall king season and there are times when I learn quite a bit, and there are times when I don't bother to open the thread.