Agreed Smalma. Ultimately the LCR fish allocation issues need to be aired as the fight over the remaining scraps of the resource that it really is. Although I'm not opposed to commercial fishing, I've long since decided that the LCR non-treaty gillnet fleet is a social, economic, and biological anachronism. Too few people benefit from the limited public fishery resource, turning fewer dollars, and causing biological harm in the form of steelhead and sturgeon bycatch. Now if the gillnet fleet switches to more selective gear types, then the issue just comes down to social and economic terms of highest and best use for society. And the non-fishing consumer and restaurant trade can still obtain their fish from the treaty fishery, no problem.

The only way the LCR commercial fishery is justified is if society somehow concludes that it is beneficial overall to allow a small select group of "limited entry" permit holders to continue their part time hobby fishing jobs at the direct public expense (in the form of lost recreational fishing opportunity) of the majority. The logic in that entitlement is perverse, at best.

Sg