Originally Posted by
NJTroutbum
Some of what you say reminds me of a time fishing the Ft Lewis side of the Nisqually river. I watched the tribe in a boat, checking nets.....milking chums for the eggs and dropping the carcasses back into the river. And saw them pull a good 1/2 dozen HUGE cutthroat out of the nets and toss them like unwanted suckers...dead. That was my introduction to the tribes and netting.
I was an owner/operator of a Puget Soung gill netter for 14 years, worked on purse sieners and done a bit of reef netting. I have seen a good portion of the commercial fishing industry from the inside. The indian commercial fishermen are not doing anything less or more than a citizen commercial fisherman would do.
"The reason you have a good vision is you're standing on the shoulders of giants." ~ Andy Batcho
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