Before the end of 2012, or just before the Legislatures start session. Hmmmm....

This needs to be watched closely. The Gov's proposal, while it suggests an immediate shift toward increasing rec. opportunity in the lower river, calls for INCREASED gill netting in the "SAFE" areas and an immediate emphasis (with taxpayer funding) on developing selective commercial fisheries in the mainstem. If this goes through, we sporties may enjoy a couple seasons of solid opportunity below Bonneville, but we will be reamed, sans vasoline, when the cowboys are equipped to fish seines in the mainstem.

This is another government-sponsored prop-up of the non-tribal commercial industry, and it must be stopped. The first step must be to approve the initiative to ban gill nets on the Lower C. That would buy some time to plan for the next objective, which should be, as others have suggested, an END to the obsolete, non-tribal commercial fisheries on the lower river. It's not jobs the govt. is trying to save here (if it were, I would be much more sympathetic). Rather, it's a mess of dollars in campaign contributions from the middle men who profit from obsolete fisheries that the tribes can more than adequately replace with their treaty allocations. For once, let's make sure common sense prevails.