Anything that brings the issue of gill nets to the public's attention is a good thing. No doubt the gill netters will bring out all the tired old arguments, but eventuelly those nets must go. (One of their goofiest arguments was made at a commission hearing I atended a few years back. They had a local mental health worker testify that without the gill net season the small coastal communites would see marked increases in divorce, child abuse and other social problems. I bet things were really ugly inthe buffalo hunting camps once they had wiped out all the buffallo!