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“It’s amazing to me that our state would be so incredibly inconsiderate in proposing such a thing,” said longtime gill-netter Irene Martin of Skamokawa, Wahkiakum County.

Joining the armada in a small gill-netter is Louie Ungaro, a former commercial fisherman who is now a member of the Muckleshoot Tribal Council.

Greg Johnson, a Columbia River gill-netter who lives in Vancouver, says that many question remain to be answered about the economics and impacts of a fish trap.

“It’s cultural,” concludes lifelong Seattle gill-netter Pete Knutson, who daylights as an anthropology professor.

“In your thirty years of fishing have you ever had occasion to board another man’s boat, sir? Have you ever, while at sea, tied up to another gill-netter and come aboard for any reason?” “just about never,” said Josiah Gillanders, primping his mustache as he spoke.