Couldn't they stage the harvest to accomodate that to some degree? I don't see anything much worse with this than the current apporoach - Either way they potentially still over harvest the weak returnng runs and screw the potato farmers' fishing up.

I agree that harvesting at the tribs would be a better solution, but how many tribs have a dam with a fish way to use as a trap? I guess it would be a better use of BPA recovery dollars to build a trap at a few of the tribs than blow it all on hatcheries and tribal buy-offs.