I wonder if any of you have read Carlson's press release regarding his four-point salmon recovery program. Point 2, concerning nets, reads as follows:

2) Remove all nets - tribal and commercial - from our state's rivers (all freshwater) and compensate for loss of income.

Please note the emphasis on rivers and freshwater. Now, does this sound like any kind of net ban to you? I think that we all realize by now that the ability of Washington's governor to change tribal fishing programs is absolutely nil, so he wants, in effect, to eliminate non-tribal commercial fisheries in the rivers of Washington state. How significant is that outside of the lower Columbia River? Sound like more smoke, mirrors and outright deception to me.