The only "other method" we ought to be spending any time, money, or political capital on is getting non-tribal commercial fishing completely out of the Columbia River altogether...it's archaic, it damages a growing list of ESA listed stocks, it makes no economic sense whatsoever, and it provides no service to the public whatsoever that it can't get without the non-tribal commercials.

Sorry for participating in the hijack, IS...gillnets have actually always been regarded as a very selective way to harvest fish...it's only once the hatchery v. wild issues arose that the definition of "selective" changed, and the new definition of selective renders gillnets pretty non-selective if they're ever being used in mixed-stock (h and w) fisheries...additionally, some of those ESA stocks are like-sized "bycatch", like catching wild steelhead in a sockeye fishery, etc.

Fish on...

Todd