CFM,

The "What to do about tribal netting?" thread has the answers to your questions regarding the excerpts you posted from the Boldt decision above dealing with mix-stock fisheries.

As I said above, I don't dispute anything you say about the Cowlitz. However, the stuff you are saying about the Cowlitz does not apply to the OP or PS streams.

You asked for opinions, Salmo, Smalma, and I gave them to you. I know they weren't the opinions you wanted, but they are our opinions. I also don't find it a coincidence that all three of ours are consistent with each others.

The genetic bank to recover wild fish is still out there in the fish that are left.

Fish on...

Todd

P.S. A lot of the scientific facts in the Findings of Fact in the Boldt decision were either facts then that have changed now, like run data that was accurate in 1971 but isn'tnow, or scientific assumptions that based on what they did know that would be incorrect based on what we know today.