NETS- Increased netting due the lack of a need to allow suitable escapement. If overharvest occurs which it will, they now have a cure all for themselves which is pump out more fish from our hatcheries. You put the nets at the top of your list and this will only increase netting activity exponetially.

SEALS- Maybe, but they only cause major problems in areas where fish are trapped such as behind a DAM. Other than that they are just a nuissance.

HATCHERY REFORM- Well now all that's going to matter is the amount of fish produced. Quality obviosly is of no concern when you consider how fish farming does business. And I'm afraid that any new hatcheries will only be located on the bottom 5 miles of a river.

DAMS- The ESA is the only way to restore native runs in the upper Columbia tributaries. There is no way dam removal will be an option when it doesn't really matter how much river is needed to sustain a hatchery run. Those dams will stay as will the 2 on the Elwha which is even a bigger shame.

POACHERS- The successfull poacher will never be caught. And now it's about time that individual tribes are taking resposibility to patrol and prosecute tribal poaching. It still has a ways to go.

The point of all this Micro, is that this ruling will set back all of these concerns you share with your fellow angler years. It's taken how many years to get commercial netters to adopt new practices including ways to target specific fish and protect certain runs. Granted it still has a LONG way to go, but I felt we were on the right track.

The only people unwilling to adress the above issues are our current leaders. This is in the interest of very few, very wealthy businesses that don't give a damn about the environment and they make me sick. This whole thing makes me want to do away with hatcheries altogether.