Hey slug

Before you go spouting off any more personal attacks, you should try educating yourself about this issue. The ignorance displayed in your post leaves the rest of your comments without any credibilty. That is not meant to be a slam against your intelligence... you may well have an IQ in the stratosphere.... but you obviously have no idea what is going on with the mismanagement of this mixed stock fishery.

In the interest of educating you and the rest of this board on the issue, check out page 3 of a thread on AOJ discussing the perils of managing the Kasilof system entirely for one species to the complete and utter exclusion of all other species, including those of the neighboring Kenai system just a few miles north:

Kasilof sockeye glut

And yes, traps are currently illegal, but that can be changed. Cook Inlet was fished very successfully with traps in the Territorial days.... they were just mismanaged. With current technology and understanding of the fishery, they would make an excellent replacement for the completely NONSELECTIVE set gillnet fishery.

Purse seines, as currently used in Alaska, do not involve live-sorting of the catch. That too, can be changed. Instead of hauling the entire purse aboard in one fish-crushing swoop, it can be left in the water and serve as a temporary net-pen to corral the fish into a tight cluster that can then be dipped out a few fish at a time, allowing the unharmed release of all non-target kings and coho! A perfect example of one simple lesson that the comm-fishers could learn from the the fish -farming industry that is crippling them economically. This type of purse-seining would make an excellent replacement for the completely NONSELECTIVE drift gillnet fishery.

I never wished for a failure of the Kenai sockeye run... a good management plan is in place to ensure the river makes its escapement. I just wanted to point out that it stipulates shutting down the nets in Cook Inlet, if it looks like the run isn't meeting expectations.

As a whole AK has done a MUCH better job of managing its salmon runs than the PNW. That doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement.!

PEACE