Kids, Kids Kids, You have been brainwashed to blame someone else instead of the Indians. The skagit is a perfect example as now we all blame logging, and yes, Sauk logging has done some extreme damage, but there are still Native fish making it back only to be intercepted in the lower rivers.
Now, I have fished those systems for over 40 years, much longer than any of you.
Without going into to much detail, I have personally pulled over 20 nets out of the Skagit over they years. (times when they had no "fishing days" as you said)
They put in and pull nets whenever they want, they have no schedule or time. All you have to do is hang out in the lower river long enough to see the action.
I will dig up my pictures of the 4 or 5 nets we pulled that had sunk with over 200 salmon and Steelhead each in them.
Join the Steelhead club and talk to the guys that live along that river, they will tell you what really goes on.
Obviously you have never fished the lower river and watch an Indian drift a net through the hole you were fishing and take every living thing out of that hole.
Please stop deflecting the Indian poblem, it is real and just becuase the federal courts made a bad decision years ago, does not mean we should walk awat from the problem and try to fix it using a different formula.
You say habitat, but the Skagit and Snohomish have good habitat and the Skykomish has the best, but yet the Native population continues to decline. Everything has an affect on the fish, but to let 1/100th of the population take 50% of all the fish is not only bad, it is stupid and only gets all of us fighting each other while the Indians go drop a net for a few hours while we argue.
In the old days we would drop 90lb hay bails in the river to take out the net, but it was much harder to get them out of the river so it became a night mission to pull the nets and chop them up while the owner either was not their (local bar) or was alseep in their trucks. I am to old anymore to do those type of missions, but it was quit effective. It forced them to at least tend their nets instead of letting them sink.