I,too, am pretty sick of hearing about the Boldt decision and the Refeedie decision and all the legal "black and white" stuff. The Makah's have a treaty right to harvest whales but folks like Greenpeace and government agencies have stopped them again. They just want to keep doing it to preserve their treaty rights and don't much care about the whale meat anymore. Perhaps the same scenario exists with tribal netting of our endangered fish.

I predict in the future that our shellfish will be endangered due to the Rafeedie decision allowing the tribes 50% of our shellfish. They are in high gear right now harvesting crab with abandon and go after the prized geoduck like crazy....mark my words it is coming.


I think education of the general "nonfishing" public is needed. Most folks who don't fish think that the poor indians need to be allowed to net fish for food. Poor things.