Well my famly introduced me to fishing down here and my family has been fishing for thousands of years with all the other families. I guess that the big thing is that it is something that is not just a way of life, it is tradition, it is something that is really valued by my family and they showed that importance to me. I’ve been fishing here for about 18 years now. I started when I was about 21 or 22 and it has really picked up. I really enjoy it. It fulfills my life. It is something that I really missed that I didn’t know I missed because it was never shown to me. I think that more people need to be shown that these things belong to us and it is something that is a resource that we need to improve on. It is part of our life. It is a big cycle and the river is part of it. I think that is really important to us. Our kids need to know this stuff, my children. I have friends that I fish with that tell me this stuff, they are my elders. I need to pass this down because nobody else will. Oral tradition is not dead. We have other ways to preserve our tradition but oral tradition still exists and that is the most important way to pass things on. It has been done for thousands of years and it works. . . . . .(dip net fishing) . . . It is not just commercial fishery. It is not just where I get to go out there in a boat and set nets. People get misconceptions that we are taking all the fish and we are not. We are taking what we think we know that we need to take out of the river. We are taking sustenance. We are taking something that is really important to us. If we knew we were effecting the resources that much we would not be out here, we would not be taking fish. We would be telling everybody else not to. The water needs to be regulated. People need to know that we are not the ones killing the resource. We are trying to recover it and it effects everybody all the way up the river. The misconceptions are there because people aren’t educated about what goes on down here. You have to know what goes on down here to really have a true picture. I’ve seen a lot of people’s minds change. . . . . (dip net fishing) . . . .