It sounds good on paper, but with all the abuses we see and hear about, how are we going to make sure that they don't take the money and then fish like they always have? If we do a buyout, then we must do a complete buyout. Then we know that if they're fishing, they're doing so illegally.

Something that I've been thinking about is some type of permit that you could buy that would grant you a large daily limit of fish. The individual angler could purchase a special punch card that would allow them X amount of fish per day over the normal limit. The fees would go to the tribes, and the catch numbers would go against the indians catch total. This might not work on every river, but I think areas like the Skokomish or Hoodsport could be good candidates to do a test run. So instead of forcing all anglers to pay the Tribes off, it would just be the ones that want the extra meat.

There's my 2 cents in the pot.