I wanted you to be clear about your priorities. Too many guys expect a perfect plan. Nothing is perfect. They can make adjustments to the ESA mortality allocation. Its a crazy assumption that just because a net wont lose any wild fish, it gives the commercial fishermen the sport share of the allocation. There are so many variables year to year, if the spring returns crashed, noone would be fishing. We are already having trouble with HATCHERY RETURNS and while we blame the ocean, we occasionally find out, that the pollock fishery has killed an extra 90,000 chinook, or the Makahs over fished their quota by 19,000 fish as they did a few years ago.

Keep in mind, who benefits from the sportsmen, being divided over a few assumption about what future allocation projection will look like. Never has one of them mentioned the good news about the Colville hatchery, that will be built and how many fish it will add to the columbia harvest. They only want you to focus on one thing. Your getting screwed, if wild fish live.

If you want to eliminate the non tribals from the allocation equation, they will need their own supply of fish, that doesnt come out of or go back to rivers with a sport harvest. That protect their share from the tribal split.