The dizzying numbers of variables that are impacting and contributing to the failure of the salmon stocks will take decades to study, sort, contemplate and debate. All the while, the money in the huge commercial fisheries is relentlessly growing their legislative cronies to insure there will never be any changes in the industrial rape of the resource until a total collapse occurs.

Of course, once the Federal Government steps in and shuts it all down, the very same industrial giants will have worked out bail out deals to get millions of dollars due to failed economic opportunities.

On a more micro view, here in Washington, we are seeing the very same strategy in play. The Tribal and Non-tribal commercial interest have absolutely NO INCENTIVE to manage the fish for renewability and conservation. They want every single last fish NOW because that's a dollar in their pocket that won't be wasted to someone else. After all, after the last fish is caught, they get federal emergency monies for loss of income. Especially the Tribes have already started setting this up by their continued press releases about how the State is doing nothing to save the fish. The hypocrisy of course, is while the Tribes are screaming they are the leaders of conservation, they refuse to lead the way in converting ALL their fisheries to select fishing methods. Something that would be very easy and cost effective especially in the terminal areas.