And as more people move to AK, as the Tongass gets logged, as fisheries increase in harvest, AK will follow the rest of the West Coast in destroying their salmon and other fish stocks.

Even if the AK marine mixed-stock fishery are held where they are now, the decline in BC, WA, and OR stocks that feed it will mean their stocks get hit harder. If the Internet is any measure, AK Chinook (Yukon,Kenai, and elsewhere) are not doing too well.

They're just a few decades behind us. And, as in human nature, they will ignore history as we did.

They won't ignore human nature, they will embrace it...by destroying their own heritage, screwing what they profess to love, and then blame it on someone else.

Every penny or minute we waste "fixing" commercial fisheries is just continuing to waste time and money.

Instead of sportsmen looking for ways to help commercial fishers net up what is left we need to refuse to help or subsidize them any more.

If they want to do it let them pay for it. The public has to pay $94 a pound for salmon?

Toughshit.

Fish on...

Todd

At least the AK hatcheries that are providing those mega-inlet fisheries are paid for by the commercial users. They tax themselves to fund those facilities. Which is why, if memory serves, most are chum, pink, and sockeye. Net fish that are not highly sought after in the marine mixed-stock hook and line fisheries.

WA commercials (non-Tribal, anyway) could do the same. They may have tried it with the Hood Canal chum a few years back but not sure how that flew in the Leg.