Time apparently ran out on a National Marine Fisheries Service proposal
to provide larger mesh-size fishing nets to tribal fishers with the overall
goal of reducing the harvest of wild steelhead listed under the Endangered
Species Act.
“My understanding is that it cant happen” in time for this summers
harvest, said Dr. Peter Dygert of NMFS. “The logistical constraints are
too great to pull it off.”
He first posed the harvest alternative in the context of Columbia River
Fish …