While I'm not a fan of gill nets I have to agree with Ramon - we anglers don't often look at the tribal fisheries in total context of what is occurring in all the fisheries.

We tend to forget that the lion share of the non-treaty share is caught in the marine waters. Conversely most of the tribal share is caught in the terminal area (often the river). For any that have gone to the North Falcon salmon season setting process it is clear that we as a group prefer it that way - we want to catch our share of fish in the salt. This even though as Ramon points out river fisheries are much more biologically sound.

While it would seem likely that nets would get all the fish it is surprising how many do escape the nets. Floatandjig mentioned the Puyallup River. In 2003 more than 38,000 coho returned to the hatchery at Voight's Creek (see WDFW's hatchery escapement report). Only 1,656 were spawned for the next year's release - thus more than 35,000 surplus fish escaped the nets.

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