Great post!

Your pictures usually tell a good story---unfortunately this not-so-good story is all too familiar to sportmen.

Now that many tribes are making a ton of money from Indian casinos, I think the tribes involved in gaming should be given a choice--they can either have the monies earned from gaming or the nets and 50% (or more) of the fish.

Why should they be allowed both?

Non-tribal casinos can't compete with Indain casinos slots (biggest money maker in casinos by far)---The tribes are not constanly expanding all there gaming facilities because they're losing a ton of money.

I don't remember studying that historically the Indians used the profits from gaming for spiritual or tribal sustenance. If they did teach that in school, I must have been absent that day (the same day that they taught us that historically the Macaw tribe used to hunt and kill grey whales with a .50 caliber gun).

If the tribes don't stop using gillnets (I'm not holding my breath), then I'd at least like to see they're harvesting efforts monitored and policed as much as the WDFW monitors and polices' the sport fishermen.

My 2 cents (that's probably what it's worth)