After getting more and more involved with CR fisheries over the past 10 years, and watching the gillnet lobbyists in all the various meetings, I think there's likely two reasons:

1. The gillnetters will not budge an inch, not a millimeter because they are holding out for the biggest buy-out price or the sweetest possible deal. They've taken the position of zero compromise.

2. Any new harvest method that has increased oversight (i.e. taking the salmon at the fish ladders; the SAFE for Salmon plan; or CCA's initiative) will decrease the gillnetters undeclared, untaxed, under the table income.

The industry is thoroughly corrupt, which makes CCA's bending over backwards to keep them on the river so painful to accept.