The Quinaults are the one's with the Boltd U&A area in the Chehalis and Grays Harbor.

I did talk to a couple of fish managers about this - I live here after all and I fish this run religiously. Basically, GH kings have underescaped for years and they are trying to build the run back up. This has been difficult, if not impossible, as the tribal share is very high inside the harbor as they make the case that we harvest way more than they do outside the harbor in the ocean and so they have to catch up in the harbor. So, those of us who like to fish inside (and in my case, whose inner ear damage prevents fishing outside ) have to suck it up.

The idea of non-indian gillnets on top of this really pissed me off, but basically it was limited entry, small mesh net targeting coho, and WDFW had an observer on every boat ensuring that all kings were released quickly and taking data on condition at release. Reportedly, they killed very few. The opinion of the biologist I talked to was that sportsfishermen were killing way more than gillnetters, as they were encountering way more and some of these overly cooperative kings do tend to swallow hooks and bleed to death as a result - I had to release two bleeders myself that I'm sure were toast - of course this was out of around 4 dozen carefully released that took off none the worse for wear.

I was and am still pissed about allowing coho gillnetting, however - I was sorting through 4 kings for each coho I caught even trolling shallow and fast, and I gave up entirely after the commercial non-indian fishery, which was followed immediatley by the commercial indian fishery - no point in it. The early floods at least wiped the net fishery out so plenty got in the rivers anyway :p .