Try this out, Geoduck,

The idea behind the Boldt decision, other than the 50/50 split, is that salmon and steelhead are worth money, so it is based on $$ in that sense.

What we have to work on is getting the courts to understand that the best way for non-treaty fishermen to extract the most $$ out of steelhead is to leave them in the river rather than take them home in our coolers.

I guess that means that they still wouldn't have any "intrinsic" value, but that their proper use provides the best economic extraction from the resource.

Fish on...

Todd