Boater,
This is a really good question and I have to think about it to give my best answer. But it will involve using total hatchery fish catch rather than ESA impact alone so recreationals don't get shorted, and commercials still catch fish, along with moving towards terminal fisheries and some sort of lower river selective catch. And, my best wish, that the natives survive, and that we survive as well.

I see this whole thing more and more as a series of stepping stones and not one great final solution.

And if there is a question as to whether ESA impact measures can be altered, the answer is YES. I was alive during the original ESA legislation and think we have the cahones to enact change, as citizens now.
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First off Boater has no boat!

thats the only truth in that giant pile of rubbish that you just posted

Someone needs to be the voice of dissent, if we all fall into line like good sheeple, whoever has the agenda gets their way, no questions asked, that`s not the way it works in this country, thank god. Your attacks on Boater validate this point. Gillnetting is a dying industry, LET IT DIE. In the meantime there are the safe areas. Bill

So what your seeing is the result of many diatribes against me and the culmination of my not going to take his gill net protection dance anymore!

Personally I don't think mixed stock selective fishing works on a large or medium scale, but it is a very good tool to keep a large number of people with a rather low understanding of the issues occupied instead of focusing on expense fixes. That would explain why groups like the CCA are constantly pushing it and somehow always seem to be absent at any of the key meetings involving land use and hydro issues. As how to repair the issues between the groups that want to catch a fish and those that want to buy one.. Seems to me putting the more efficient method behind the play one would make more sense but that would involve removing previously passed laws that were designed to give each group their own area to fish with no contension..Worked well for a short time time I would imagine.

And just what have you done constructively to change the status quo in all those years?

advocated for common sense in fisheries managment and your a clear example of where ive failed

....If, BIG IF, ESA impacts could be changed and if, .....

Not sure why I keep stepping in but we have to figure this out or leave to the nextgen.

Dr.Rick, I don't see any changes to the 2% allowable ESA impact on upriver spring chinook, that sports and gillnetters share, happening under any reality-based scenario.

It's a lot more straight forward, and beneficial to all to get those stocks recovered, and then de-listed. ESA impacts go away, and then we're left with the constraint of catch-balancing with the Tribes -- which actually has more flexibility. Recovery is really the key to expanding CR fishing. And that is what a lot of people are working on.

True native or not, domesticated or not, listed is listed.