No problem, Duroboat...I'm glad to have such a place where I can share that type of information with people who really need it.

However, don't let the postings being here make you too complacent...nothing in those posts you're talking about was just posted for the first time.

There are a few members who continue to talk about Foregone Opportunity, and tribal catch rates, and science, and politics...without backing it up with much in the way of facts.

You watch, in spite of the words of the Boldt decision, which sets the framework for salmon and steelhead management policies, you will continue to see these same folks say things that directly contradict what is out there in plain sight for them to see.

I don't know how many times I've responded to people's posts saying "why should the tribes get to use monofilament gillnets and powerboats when they didn't have them at the time of the treaties?" I've responded by showing the exact piece of federal law that says they can. Here they are again saying the same thing.

The folks that keep demonizing WSR because the Indians will use Foregone Opportuity to get all the fish, just like they always have, can never come up with a court case where they did.

The reason is that it has never happened. That's not to say that it may not...but it hasn't happened yet. In my opinion it won't, but we'll have to see how that shakes out.

It's kind of funny, but the type of a situation where FO would apply would be in the situation where we in no way possible could even have the possibility to harvest the non-tribal portion, and that would be if there were no commercial gillnets fishing over gigantic runs of salmon. It sure didn't stop these same people from supporting the B.A.N. initiative, which would have presented that situation.

It didn't stop me from supporting B.A.N., either...I picked up and distributed a lot of signs the last time it came up.

Fear and emotion are there for everyone who gets involved in steelhead management, and they're especially there for folks who don't get involved other than to b!tch about what's going on.

Fear and emotion, however, is not science, it's not law, and it's not facts.

Fish on...

Todd