The idea that the tribes get 50% of the fish is a joke. They are notorious for cheating and keeping a lot more than 50%. I'm really getting sick and tired of hearing the following, "Tribal treaty fisheries are essential to the tribes’ subsistence, economy, and culture and way of life. The spring chinook fishery in particular is important to the treaty tribes because it is the first run of salmon to return for the season." What a crock of sh!t! This is about greed and hatred. Aren't the millions tax payers give them enough? Isn't gambling and in the future pot growing and selling enough? Illegal cigarette sales, liquor etc. Constant examples of poaching, littering, polluting, netting fish and taking only the eggs. It goes on and on. This has nothing to do with race. It has to do with people that have grown accustom to bilking the system. (They aren't the only ones.) Has anyone looked at their high school graduation rates? Is that our fault?

They say we took their lands but when you listen to how some talk about how their brave ancestors fought for their land (against other tribes) you have to wonder what the difference is. They try hard to hide the fact that not only did they fight other tribes but they also kept slaves from those beaten tribes. I'm certainly not saying we are perfect I'm only saying that this is a world where the fittest survive. They lived that way so they need to accept that it's over. The indian wars are over and they lost. Now they need to become part of society and stop with the culture and way of life sh!t. The culture and way of life joke only comes into play when they want something. They follow the old ways and culture about the same as Donald Trump practices political correctness.

It's time that we start getting ours. If we can't get ours in fishing agreements then we need to start taxing their casinos and any sales of anything on their so called lands. They need to pay taxes for our roads, schools and anything else they use that is funded by the American tax payer. I've worked 50 of my 64 years and paid taxes all those years. Why don't I or the rest of you that have done or do the same get the same breaks and advantages that they do? Especially considering they contribute nothing to better this country.

Over the years that I've fished in this state I like everyone else have seen the incredible decline in the fisheries. While that is happening they are still "getting theirs". Also during that time I've seen horrific atrocities relating to fish and game management by them. I didn't just wake up and decide that they are bad. It's taken years of watching the sh!t go down. Let it be known that I don't hate indians but as a whole it's very difficult to respect them. I know plenty of Native Americans and get along with them and consider them friends BUT they are not complaining and/or sticking it to the man. I am 20% Native American. I have NEVER tried to get any compensation or benefits because of it. It's time they tow their share of the load.