When I was a kid growing up in Northern Mich, my entire family were commercial fishermen, fishing for mackinaw trout, whitefish etc in the 50's with gill nets. Then came the big crash in fish populations due to the lamprey eel's and us........drugs......no........we moved on to other things, for me it was first some time logging and then the military......the folks involved with commercial fishing in WA will move on to other things.