This particular issue (coho net fishery on the Duwamish) is most emphatically NOT about the ESA...you can clamor about the ESA listed Chinook all you want, but the impacts from this fishery are well within legal limits...they are catching coho, and some nasty pinks.

There is not a conservation element to this topic...the coho run in the Duwamish/Green River is tens of thousands of fish over-escaped...tens of thousands...and that's after all the fisheries have been conducted, mainly by non-tribal fishermen throughout the year.

As I noted above, a couple of times, the biggest problem with this situation is the unsightliness of a ton of nets in the six mile stretch of the Duwamish River...but the emotional impact of seeing them is just that...emotional...and doesn't magically turn it into a conservation issue.

As you may know, I have the same emotional response to seeing the garbage strewn knuckledragger fisheries that go on in the fall...pretty much every terminal area salmon fishery, and half the terminal steelhead fisheries, too...they're even worse, since they're full of not just unsightliness, but full of lawbreakers, too.

Fish on...

Todd