Let's all play a violin for the "poor" billion dollar commercial fishing industry that has enabled numerous Washingtonians to make the Forbes 500 list. Or that provide great jobs like working in a slime line where we have to recruit workers in lesser developed countries in order to try and fill the labor pool.

Maybe we should start by looking at Alaskan examples of when the big, bad mining, construction, or oil and gas industries have destroyed highly productive salmon watersheds. Then again, maybe not, since there're aren't any.

Let's call a spade a spade. This initiative is nothing more than environmentalists in Portland, Seattle, and elsewhere trying to kill natural resource development (and severely challenging many others) in Alaska. They are the ones funding this effort with a handful of fisherman as their friendly local face.