Originally Posted By: Sebastes
I'm a little confused what this fishery has to do with treaty tribes.

American Shad are a non-native species to Washington and Oregon as are largemouth, smallmouth, walleye, crappie, bluegill and yellow perch.

That was my first thought when I first saw this thread.

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I certainly understand tribal fishermen and non-tribal commercial fishermen wanting to be able to develop a commercial fishery for shad for their economic benefit.

If developing a fishery no matter what type of gear is used results in more netting effort on the Columbia, I question the wisdom of it.

Adding more netting activity on the C is a weird concept but if it helps to develop selective harvest methods......well, still can't bless it.

DD
Who is typing this on the banks of the Connecticut River in South Hadley, MA.
These are big shad....the record came from this location.....11lbs-4oz in '86
That's a big herring.
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