"but you have to look at the whole problem, not just the easy answer."

I'd say that out of hand blaming problems on tribal netting has been the "easy answer" for sportsmen for going on forty years...and though it's been pointed out above a few times, those fisheries from the '60's, where the nets were in like crazy and sportsmen were harvesting upwards of 25,000 wild steelhead per year from the Skagit....those days are long, long, long gone...neither of those has been happening for a very long time, so looking to those as the current problem is waste of energy.

I'm not bashing the Wildcatters, just noting that you should do more research than just asking them...you're only getting a very small piece of the picture.

No one, and I mean no one, thinks that tribal netting is good for fish...no one. Going from that directly to "they are overharvesting", however, is not supported by the facts.

Sportfishing also is not "good for fish"...that doesn't mean that sportfishers are overharvesting on those streams, either.

Fish on...

Todd