Jacob,

That's my point exactly.

The tribes were using jet boats to herd trapped fish into nets, fish that couldn't get away. I didn't get a chance to go out and witness it, but from what I heard, it was pretty much despicable the way it was going down.

However, it was perfectly legal, and protected activity, well within their treaty rights.

Sportsmen weren't fishing, and we raised a big stink about it, and the tribes stopped it. Not because they had to, mind you, but because they looked really bad doing it.

Read the thread "Foregone Opportunity Analysis" and you'll see that point as one of the reasons why foregone opportunity isn't the big bugaboo it's made out to be, among several others.

At the end of my responses to Smalma's questions about my analysis, you'll see that the reasons include;

1. I think we can win in court
2. They can't win, even if they do in court. At best for them, we go right back to where we were before the WSR regulation, so they get no fish because of it, and they get really bad PR for trying to ruin our efforts to put more fish on the spawning beds.
3. If there is no foregone opportunity fight, their half gets bigger, too, because of more fish on the spawning grounds.

Why would they push it? There's absolutely nothing that they could possibly gain from it, only lose. Them and the fish, and us.

If they leave well enough alone, we all come out ahead, them, us, and the fish.

Fish on...

Todd
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