I grew up in Belfair, a resident of that town for twenty three years and I have seen huge changes in the population in that area. They are working on a long overdue sewer system that will run down the north and south shores one towards Belfair State Park and the other Toward Twanoh State Park. This is of course will take care of just a portion of the problem. I too believe that the tribal netters contribute to the problem with their dumping of the carcasses but I also believe that the hatcheries contribute just as much. Over the last few years there have been record returns of chum, the primary fish raised in the hatcheries. Over the last two years there have been close to a million chum returning to the canal each year, numbers never before seen in this body of water. If the tribe doesn't get these fish most of them go up the rivers and then as soon as there is a good rain end up at the bottom of the canal scavenging needed oxygen. I would like to see a more balanced effort on the hatcheries part to raising less chum and more kings and silvers. This would take care of much of the wasted fish flesh rotting at the bottom of the canal. My reasoning is that more fish caught by the tribe would be sold, more fish would be kept by fishermen catching more fish that are actually palatable, and there would be a less overall number of fish returning, I would much rather see 200,000 chum, 200,000 kings and 200,000 silvers than a million chum and a 10, 000 kings and silvers. Those are numbers that I just threw out there but I just removed about 4,000,000 lbs of rotting fish and I truly believe this would help more than making people quit fertilizing their lawns and a sewer system. The amount of oxygen depleted by one rotting fish is astronomically high let alone millions of pounds of rotting fish. Just my two cents.