Somewhere here in this thread, someone said that the best steelhead rivers left, had a lot of fish surviving to make a second and third spawning run. The tribal nets catch fish going up and back down the rivers. Now if we could put weirs on those rivers and traps, our native counterparts could just take half the fish out of the traps and pass on the other half up river, remember 50% right. Oh yeah, if they wanted to show us what great conservationists they are, maybe pass more natives up river to help build the run back. This would work on the penninsula rivers as we are very constrained about how many natives we are allowed, while they have a wide open gill net fishery. I might point out that if the weirs were set low in the river, the native fishery would be guaranteed their 50%. In other words without tribal help and cooperation on the penninsula, restoring steelhead is just a frustrating dream. Without fish, habitat and all the other problems if solved would do nothing to bring back the fish.