It sounds like what bothers some of you "sports"men is seeing over-fishing by "Indians" using gillnets. The fish are dwindling, then the government imposes shorter amounts of time and higher cost for nonIndian fishing. This treaty allows the "Indians" to over fish, they won't stop and they waste a lot. Because of this treaty, there is no solution so "sports"men get even by throwing straw bales into the nets, bitch about them together, and one psycho even wants to play cowboys and indians and is threatening bodily harm!

When are you going to take responsibility for your own actions or lack of them?

Why are you not bitching about creek and riverside logging and clear-cutting that creates flooding just in time for spawning? How come you don't threaten farmer Jones who lets his cows poop in the river and uses chemical fertilizer that kills the fish. Why is it okay for your neighbor to let his car graveyard "fluids" and septic system leak into the river. Why don't you bitch at and turn in the guy you see snagging on the river every day (because he is on disability and doesn't have to work), isn't he the same guy that brags about taking undersized and illegal fish? Why did it take so long to notice how many fish commercial fishermen take out (and of course, how they all report their catch count so honestly)and how many dams do we have now?

We nonIndians have had the same opportunities as the treaty affords the "Indians" and have done the same things we are accusing "Indians" of doing and unfortunately, if given the same opportunity today, there would be a lot of us doing the same thing the "Indians" are doing! Could it be that the concern is not for the dwindling supply of fish but who gets to catch them before they are all gone?