I totally agree with what Mike B. said. There are those native americans that respect our natural resources as much as any of us and then there are those that dont give a damn. Unforunately the ones that dont give a damn are much more visible than those who do care. Like our friends that are Yakima's that have hunted elk with us for years with the same liscenses we buy and under the same rules we follow. But then theres those few that shoot elk in front of everyone at the Oak Creek feeding station and net fish just for their eggs so they can sell them to foreign markets. Thing is, I've seen quite a few sport fisherman doing the same damn thing to chum, but not on such a large scale of course. Such things can be swiftly delt with though if its a sport fisherman, as for the natives, well they do it and it seems no one is there to stop them from doing it again.
In my opinion theres 2 ways to take care of this. The longest shot is getting the law changed from "state land is unclaimed land" to "state land is claimed land", but that will take the right case, one damn good lawyer, and a lot of money. What I am refering to is the law that many of you have probably read about that allows native americans in our area to continue thier harvesting methods off of tribal lands. This is a problem specifically with our district court located in "san francisco" of course, that encompasses the western states. The rest of the country has the "state land is claimed land" version of the law, so natives have to abide by our laws once off of tribal land.
My other idea is grab your video camera, go down there and film what their doing. Then shoot a copy of to all our local t.v. networks and newspapers. They might not respond but its worth a shot. Maybe they'll send one of their "investigative" reporting shows, down there to take a look.

waterboy