Originally Posted By: Carcassman
Why would there need to be a non-Indian commercial fishery to access the NI share? If the recs had a good opportunity to take the share in the river or bay what is then wrong with letting the tribal commercials take the rest of the harvestable?



This.

The State seems to have no problem creating and prosecuting recreational fisheries for paper fish that get netted before they make it to the rivers...now they might have some actual fish for us to fish for.

So the tribes end up with more than 50%?

So what? So long as the recreationals get as many as we can catch...which is more than we get now...and we all get the economic benefit of such a thing...which none of us is getting now...then fine by me.

Sporties worrying about making sure non-tribal commercials get their fair share are wasting time, money, and fishing time.

Screw those guys...they've been screwing us...well, more to the point, the State has been screwing us by doing that, no reason for us to help.

Fish on...

Todd
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