After having done a bit more research it seems like influencing how the tribes fish is not really an option. They are their own separate entity and the only way to influence how they fish is to tweak the Boldt decision which seems excessive if the only means are to stop tribes from using gill nets. If that ever were to happen it would surely affect them in more ways than one.

Perhaps I will just focus more on the commercial gill nets and propose solutions like the fish trap that was recently running on the Columbia for the past two years.

But again, what could we do to see this through?