I dunno Salmo G,

I think I'm with Stilly bum on this one.

Commercial fishing is the commercialization of wild animals.

If you look at the precedent set by commerical harvest of wild game and birds, it doesn't look good for wild fish.

For instance what happened to the carolina parakeet, passenger pigeon, whales, american bison, ducks, geese, deer, elk, and turkey populations in this country?

They were hunted to extinction, or near extinction until market hunting was banned.

Those that survived the market hunters have recovered nicely since market hunting was banned.

Don't think fishing and hunting are the same?
I disagree a dead animals is still dead whether killed by a hunter or fisher.

harvest is harvest.

If you want a fish example, look at Stiped Bass on the East Coast. The population was decimated by overharvest, mainly commmerical. They banned commercial fishing and the population has since rebounded.

I'm sure if commercial harvest of salmon was banned, salmon too would recover to a great extent wherever enough habitat remains.

Just to be clear, by banning commerical I mean no more catching salmon to sell. I recognize that the tribes will never reliquish their right to commercially harvest salmon, I'm speaking in hypothetical terms here.