Closing down a river system to sportsfishing will benifit poachers as there are fewer eyes on the river. As to the fact of Indain netting, we will not stop it. Save your breath, I am against netting on mixed stocks like everyone else. Truth is if not for native fishing rights there would most likely be LESS fish available. Indains have treaty rights to fish and the state and federal goverments have obligations to provide fish for them to catch. The dam mitigations are not for you and I if we are non-indain. They are an obligation to the treaty indains. When hatcheries were first put in on the lower Columbia prior to the dams they were for comercial fishers not sports fishing. They were to provide abundant comercial catch while the native runs were being deminished due to over fishing. Hatchery facilities were put in above Bonneville after the dam was errected to sustain runs for the treaty tribes. Their rights to fish were not fully utilized until after the Bolt decision. Prior to Bolt the Indains took fewer fish on most systems now they take their full +share and we compete with the non indain comercial for what's left. The indains didn't overfish the Skagit, the comercial and sports fishers did that and then the two dams reduced spawning areas and the numbers dropped until you have what we have today. R.I.P Skagit