There are a lot of good ideas on this board. I agree with most but disagree wwith the gillnetting not being one of the major benefactors. Yes, all take a toll on our bigger Puget Sound Kings-Which is primarily what I am talking about. BC has supposedly cut out most of their commercial non tribal-fishing, but not so from what I have been told by some of the tackle manufacturers in BC. Last year when I flew to Hakai Pass. I counted 21 nets strung across Johnstone Straight (East side of Vancouver Island). These were all in an area of about five miles long. This doesn't include what I couldn't see out the other side of the plane. These very well could have been first nations nets. I don't know. They were all strategically placed going straight out from the main land corners and begining of islands. You cannot tell me this doesn't make a big difference on a fish run. I am sure there are jsut as many on the outside of Vancouver Island. One main factor that might help is the fish running timing being off so that they miss it, but not that likely. When the ground stocks of Yelloweye at Neah Bay are listed fish now. How come they are still out there in these areas of this netting? The big mother ship and smaller ones are out there targeting sable cod in the same areas. These are a bottom fish too. I saw and have pictures somewhere where they dumped all of the smaller ones. We drove through them. The ones that weren't dead were belly up gasping and dieing. This is not good.