Originally Posted By: Todd

Steelhead don't hardly even eat sardines, but now commercial netting of sardines is the culprit? The only thing that would be better is if it were Indians netting the sardines...then we could really get whooped up about it.


The first year the sardine fishery started off the mouth of the Columbia the Quinaults did have a few boats in the fishery. They quit early on though because they were not comfortable with the chinook bycatch. Hard to get whooped up about that.