Buddy,

You,ve misconstrued my earlier posts. I did not say, nor did I insinuate that bleaching occurred on the day in question. Also, I'm not defending Joe's story. The aforemention "build up"/example I provided was mainly for your edification, because you expressed disbelief that this act actually occurs.

The ease of using bleach or an M-80 is THE reason poachers use these methods. Why would they care about other creatures suffocating or blowing up, when they don't care about the resources to begin with.

The facts of the case are:
1)Big pile of fish in Tribal Hole on Elwha.
2)Fish had not spawned.
3)Over 20 of them.
4)A guy in a drift boat said the Indians bleached the hole.

If I had nothing else to go on other than the above, then I'd probably surmise that bleaching did occur. Besides, how can you "challenge" anyone, when you didn't even know what bleaching was to begin with?

Hint: the reason why there isn't "dead fish for miles" is because of this cool thing called - diffusion.