the price is way up to 50 cents a pound. if people buy less then the price will go down and they will just catch more steelies to make the same amount of money.
steel-addicted, where are you getting your information about little or no enforcement of the fish regs in regards to native netting? have you seen a few examples and decided that all native fishers are totally unregulated? i spend close to a hundred days a year on the quinalt and have never seen anything like you are saying. in fact, last year the quinalts shut down their entire summer fishery, because the sockeye run was way down.i believe the tribal authorities are more concerned about the resource than the white guys are. keep in mind , that before the white guys came into the picture ,that the indians had an almost unlimited supply of fish and this lasted for thousands of years. then along comes the white guys and within a hundred years , the fish are just about gone.is it really the indians that are to blame? commercial sales of fish and netting are issues that get a lot of people upset, but in reality, the fish decline is a complicated problem with many contributing factors ( most of which are beyond the natives control)