Thursday
Jan212010
Early 29 pounder bites the dust on the Hoh
Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 12:00AM 
A magnificent fish meets a sad end in a Lower Hoh tribal gill net.
tagged steelhead in Conservation, Species
steelhead in Conservation, Species
Reader Comments (14)
Nice fish! I hope it still taste good.
how much per pound this year?
such a shame
Sad...very very sad
dip nets, gill nets, same thing right?
7 a pound at Pikes Place!
He's smiling cause he knows the $25 he'll get from the fish buyer will MAYBE pay for the fuel he used to catch it. What a freaking waste.
catch it with a rod - then I'll be impressed
take those people off the endangered list and put the fish on
Happens every year on the Columbia River with late Idaho B-run fish that get caught in floating nets that the tribes have out for Sturgeon in February.
What's that you ask, floating nets for bottom feeding Sturgeon? There should be a law against that or something.
$40,000 spent on recovery per returning fish (one figure I've heard) and they get 2.35/lb.
The native american in the picture deserves that fish more than anyone I know.
The native american in the picture deserves that fish more than anyone I know.
January 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterHillary Clinton
by Hillary Clinton, Bah HA HA HA HA HA what a piece of work...
They should have to use traditional fishing methods, spears, wooden pens, or whatever. Nice fish!
The true irony here resides in the fact that sport fishing pre-catch/release and size requirements effectively reduced the gene pool of aged specimens/trophy fish. The best have been hunted nearly out of existence. Native peoples knew how to manage resources and their population numbers were not large enough to threaten any fish or animal used for food. This is where we are folks. Reduce the world's population by half and watch the earth/nature re-balance itself. Overpopulation is the problem here. We are our own worst enemy.