Sol: Sounds like you know what you are talking about when it comes to regulations. Do you mind telling us what you do that keeps this stuff on your radar nine hours a day?

I agree with your sentiments, but do think that one problem we have always faced is focus on one problem as reason for not tackling another. Sure nets are an awful thing, that would disappear tomorrow if I were in charge, but even if they are gone the salmon still need a healthy environment in every part of their life cycle or they will go extinct nets or no nets.

I once talked to a man who had logged his property right down to the river bank, who told me "fish don't need no environment" It's the damn nets that are the problem.

In an enlightened society we would have our scientists tell us what is the number one problem and then we would tackle it. But we would also be looking at all the other issue and tackling them as rapidly as we could.

I see little sign we are doing that. Instead we seem to be spending millions on feel good projects like totally revamping a seasonal; stream that flows into the Sammamish Slough, right next to a huge sod farm that is sucking the slough nearly dry every summer.