Stlhd

I disagree, Indians and commercials throughout the Pacific northwest overfish waters. When fisheries managers finally have the sense to stop or reduce harvest, stocks can be rebuilt. In the Cedar, stocks cannot rebuild past a remnant population because of marine mammal predation. Puget Sound populations of marine mammals have been well studied for at least 20 years, and the populations of, in particular, the California sea lion have exploded.

The Greenies place the blame on us, because of the funnel like environment that the steelhead must go through to get into the locks. This is also true, but bottom line: tribal fishing ended years ago, steelhead did just fine passing through the locks for decades, and marine mammals are completely unregulated fishers that have grown orders of magnitude over the past decade.