This is the exact kind of mentality that is the driving force behind continued deleterious commercial harvest practices.

Although a decision has been put forth allowing continued harvest of 50% of the stocks, it says no where in this decision that non-selective, outdated, dangerous, and harmful practices should be employed to deliver that 50%.

We live in an era of "co-managment" and it is our job to voice the concern, and the commissions job to drive the concern onto the doorstep of the tribes (who are a mix of tribal, and non-tribal interest parties). In the long run, it comes down to the tribal harvest managers to change the rules and regs for their people; the driving force being the extinction of their coveted resource. Half of nothing is nothing. We all know this.

To accept that nets are a "reality that will not go away" is a weak a$$ argument, and is a total cop out for the responsibility that we ALL share for the resource, tribal and non.