Ok sollex you maybe right on how and why the nets are strung on the coast. I can only tell you and everyone that i have seen a net, not just the land ties streghted all the way across a small trib on the puyallup and it was out of the water enough to see from bank to bank.
Now i protested on the board when i first got on here about this. Yes i understand that there are rules you have to obey, just like everything else.
Yes i know it is hard work to maintain and run those nets and keep snags out and logs and branches, i've seen them stuck in to the knuckles in land tied nets on the Nisqually.
And yes, i still do believe that the fishiery should go to thee tribe, as it is the tribes hertiage that is what has been established as the reason for the infomas words:
NORAML AND ACUSTOMED WAYS AND NORMAL AND ACUSTOMED PLACES!

Thanks for verifing some of my thoughts

elmtree (woody)