I think Eddie is right .The positions taken here are firmly entrenched and have been overstated ad nauseum. One misconception I would like to point out though...Some say that many who oppose WSR are opposed because the idea that if the indians get to keep wild steelhead then by God I can too....A similar confused view was repeatedly taken during the Ban All Nets campaign. So many people said they were not supporting the ban on nets because it would no apply to the tribes.

I think that WSR is but a small part of a complex effort to save wild fish in this state. I think that the fact that the tribes are not participants in solving the problem but appear to be a big part of the problem insults all of us working on solving the problem. We resent it. We are angry. We want the tribes to join the rest of the population in cooperating to save the runs of wild fish. We don't want to sit by and watch them slaughter 10s of thousands of wild steelhead every season. So far they are the benficiaries of every cut back sports fishing is slapped with. So it isn't that we want the same rights as the tribes it is that we want everyone to be on the same team working to save our wild fish. I believe that if all sports fishing was halted tomorrow on all waters the tribes would simply step in and net the hell out of what we left for them.

How can you have a WSR policy on all waters of the state and simultaneously advocate and plead for a three fold increase in wild steelhead mortality by commercial gill netters?
If it is wrong to kill wild steelhead for sports fishers why is it ok for gill netters?