Not trying to degridate your honorable intentions at all....... Saving even one wild steelhead is never a waste of time. BUT..... When a fish (or animal) is on the threatened or endangered list in our country, we would not let another country descimate or harm those animals (in theory at least). So even though the tribes are a "sovereign nation within a nation" why can they justify allowing a resource to suffer? Cause of a treaty? Since when has this country ever honored a treaty that they felt was oudated or just plain wrong?
Hell, did we not just back out of the Nuclear Proliferation TREATY with all the major player countries of the world???????
Shame on those that keep harping about how nothing can be done...... It probably WONT ever be done, but dont give me that ole story of how treaties have to be honored forever....
And I believe that all the countries involved with the NPT were against us backing out of the agreement....... The only reason that the treaties have not been altered with the times is simply because it is not "PC" to do it, and lord knows we are a "PC" country nowadays....

Getting back to the steelhead thing, it is a no-brainer to release ALL wild steelhead in this period of time.... But since when has the WDFW been in the "have a brainer" club when it comes to things like this?
Go get em'.......

MC