Duck, I read a study on the viability of wild steelhead production on the upper Columbia rivers. I believe the Yak was one of the rivers that supported a very small, almost non-existant run of steelhead. I don't understand why the state doesn't plant the Yak because the Okanogan and the Similakameen were also poor steelhead rivers but each one of them gets 50k smolts. Maybe the state feels that the tribe can support the Yak with federal monies. Are the hatcheries fererally supported or strictly native monies? (do they drive federal trucks?) I do disagree with you that forever is a long time (to change the Boldt Decision) and I will continue to bitch and moan when a American has a seperate and different right than I. snit