Not only is it not true that more wild springers will hit the gravel, wait until the really nasty surprise in this plan comes to light...the "highest and best use" you are talking about...

The commercials by coming much more efficient and selective than us will likely get a lot more than the .8% impact they are getting now...there will be no way to argue at all that the split shouldn't at least be 50/50...that, too, will remove more fish from the sportfishing fleet's opportunity.

Jake, I'll say this one more time: NO sportfishermen are advocating for more gillnets...but some of us are also not advocating for a greater commercial catch that comes with no concommitant increase in natural spawners, and comes at the expense of sportfishing opportunities.

Some of us are also advocating for something that actually will work...get rid of the in-river non-tribal commercial fisheries altogether, as they provide no useful service that isn't already being provided elsewhere, other than to take fish, days, and lots of dollars out of the sportfishing community.

Besides making the most sense economically, that would also actually put more ESA fish on the spawning grounds AND make sportfishing better, at the same time.

Fish on...

Todd