Thanks for the alert Native son. Being that I'm on the side of fairness I am well prepared for ANY kind of shots that might be fired from the side of unfairness. - Thanks for the supportive comments Dan. Has the Nisq. gotten any better? It had only one direction to go from our N. Board meeting! - Thanks much for taking the time to reply Salmo. It seems the more info that comes to light the more questions it raises. Didn't the Boldt and Belloni decisions, further defined by Fed. court decisions in 1974, interpret the 50% share for non-Indians of the fish deemed harvestable as a right? I don't recall in my reviews the interpretations as being described as privilages. Our rights have certainly been treated as privilages that keep getting taken away and often given to the Indians; depite our ability to release ESA native fish as you mentioned! So maybe you're correct about that. If so, would that be fair? NO! - I will repeat the questions here that I asked in the other thread for those that didn't see it. Since you describe these questions I've raised as being beyond your expertise Salmo, can you refer us to whom has the expertise to answer them? The NW sportfishers deserve the real answers. Would we have to go any higher than Mr. Stelle? All the way to Wash. D.C.? Or do you think the states lawsuit against the Fed.s/Tribes will bring out the truth? Or fairness? - RT