Fish monger,

Boater is brief, but correct. That is how the tribe's prefer to fish. Going selective would mean changing their harvest model. The current model is one of individually franchised (by the respective treaty tribe) fishermen. Each fisherman thinks he is the highliner and can and will harvest more fish than others. Preserving this fishing model is in his best self interest, even if the tribe as a whole harvests fewer fish overall. In a selective fishing context, the fishing either becomes more communal or more capital intensive, or both. That is a strong disincentive, despite the potential for overall higher earnings. Higher earnings overall are meaningless at the individual fisherman level unless they accrue to that individual fisherman. Ergo, the reason for resisting selective harvest methods in commercial fisheries.

Goharley,

No problem with flooding the market. There is plenty of market space for the entire harvestable number of premium quality CR spring chinook at premium prices if the fishery were managed to that end. It isn't. It likely won't be. Thanks to human greed and avarice and obsession with status quo, sensible changes are not readily accepted.

Sg