Until the system is rid of non-selective gillnets, getting enough wild fish to the gravel will be a perennial problem.

Until then, our best bet is to manage the nets on a quota system, NOT a harvest rate model. Let them fish in real-time up to the predicted harvest/impact on paper, then STOP!

There's too many in-season variables to factor into a harvest "model"... far too much uncertainty in how many fish will actually be caught in real-time on the water. The harvestable numbers and allowable impacts are already calculated. The mechanism for quick reporting is already in place on the non-treaty side.... in fact it's a requirement to participate in the fishery. USE IT!

Set a tentative non-treaty gillnet season based on pre-planned fishing days, BUT prosecuting each day of fishing is predicated on a full accounting of the total wild harvest/impact at the end of the previous day of fishing. If the allowable harvest/impact has been consumed..... GAME OVER!

It ain't rocket science folks. Everyone that feels likewise should make it a point to e-mail Region 6 managers with those sentiments... or better yet show up to the Mar 19 meeting to make our collective voices heard!

Time to step up to the plate WDFW. You can't reasonably ask the QIN to clean up its gillnetting practices when we're doing the same thing on the non-treaty side.