Steely Slammer the Forked tongue reference was nice, I'll try to make this very clear. Okay read slowly and try to pay attention, the Chehalis Tribe will not report it's harvest data to WDFW until they have reached an agreement with them, the Spring Chinook was forecasted at below escapement in 2008 so the Chehalis Tribe only had Ceremonial fisheries for their Salmon Ceremony and took 18 fish during two three night openings in the first two weeks of May 2008 those fish were discussed via E-mail with WDFW including Phil Anderson, specifically to let them understand what the impacts of those ceremonial fisheries were and to voice their concern with a 5 day a week Sturgeon Fishery done by QIN from April 16 to July 31 in 2008. The Tribes Commercial catches for the last few years have been sold to a licensed Commercial fish buyer and all of those fish were reported using the State system of fish tickets. The Chehalis Tribe has not fished commercially for Spring Chinook during 2008 but did commercially fish for Coho and Steelhead these are the only targeted species for the Chehalis Tribe they do not target Fall Chinook or Chum. If region 6 cannot gather their own information from the Olympia office and the Fish Ticket system for display at NOF meetings that is not the fault of the Chehalis Tribe. I would appreciate any feedback or comments on the Chehalis Tribes fisheries and would be happy to try and answer any questions that anyone might have feel free to send me an e-mail or PM me and I'll respond as soon as I can.

The Commercial Fishery for Winter Steelhead by the Chehalis Tribe is done for the season there will be a 24 hour ceremonial fishery beginning today at noon and ending tomorrow at noon if the requested number of fish are caught for a tribal elders funeral dinner on Saturday. This way if you see a net on the Reservation tonight you will all know why.