Steering myself away from this useless sh!tstorm that so many of you are content to wallow around in, a related and useful topic came up.

It's been mentioned that the Colville Tribe is building a new salmon hatchery, on BPA's dime of course, and that the Tribe is testing selective fishing methods, beach seine, purse seine, and tangle net. Has anyone thought to ask why they are doing it, yet the four Columbia River treaty tribes, Yakima, Warm Springs, Umatilla, and Nez Perce are silent on the subject? Could it be that the treaty tribes aren't interested in the less efficient, less cost-effective, selective fishing? And that the Colvilles are interested in it because they are not a treaty tribe with treaty protected fishing rights? They have less "juice" at the co-manager fishery management talks because they are not a court adjudicated co-manager. Todd, be sure and pick up on this if I'm off. As a non-treaty Tribe, the Colvilles are limited to fishing on reservation, like the Chehalis Tribe on the west side. Anyway, I thought it was an interesting point in an otherwise completely gone sideways thread.

You all realize of course that this forum and this thread is read by the commercial fishing industry and ODFW and WDFW, right? Thougth so.

Sg