But it didn't kill any fish!

You have a 50/50 chance on guessing who's it was. Wonder if one of the two groups will be held responsible...

Oh yes you can bet it did..... They just rot quickly and fall out. If it were a commercial net it would have a number tag on it (required for them).
I have seen (and found) so many abandoned tribal nets in the Columbia River when I was guiding for 6 years. Sometimes washed into an eddy and those had carcasses in them....
If they "lose" them, they are replaced by the Gov't, and a Yakima friend of mine told me they are supplied with new sets every few years. Not sure if that is still the case, but if you paid for them you surely would not just leave them floating around........

MC

MC, good point. Last season on the Skok I found / seen a net that had probably 30 or 40 silvers in it. I noticed it around the 1st of Oct and it was still there with rotting salmon in it two and half weeks later. Just doesn't seem right. Someone or the organization should have been paying a game waste fine to the state. I think about a $100.00 per fish would have been a good start. I am sure a lot of other sport fisherman also noticed it. I say Ban all inland salmon netting.