One of the solutions to the gillnet non-selective harvest problem is to buy them out. There are literally hundreds of millions of dollars spent to protect weak salmon stocks. Not many of them really work. One idea would be to take some of these funds and offer to buy out the gillnets so that the fishermen could leave with a smile on their face instead of being legislated out of business. Purse seines, because of their selectivity, could remain in Puget Sound. New laws would have to be created for alternative fishing gear capable of selective harvest and there is much conjecture of what works and doesn't work there. Years ago beach seines were effectively used on the lower Columbia, but salmon were in greater abundance then because ocean harvest was minimal. I think that traps at the mouths of rivers are the answer. But how those traps are managed and who gets to use them is the issue. We manage our public owned logging industry on a bid basis, not a "Derby" basis like our commercial fishing. DNR uses a bid process for the geoduck industry. Put the river mouth traps up for a bid. You get selectivity of hatchery fish abundance, better resource management, better survival. It would change the culture of the industry, of course. But if things don't change to better conservation we are in trouble.