text: i'm all for co-management, but i have to imagine that there first has to be a consensus among all folks living along the river, from the mouth on up.  despite the presence of local grassroots organizations, there's  a considerable amount of inter-river conflict.  if it can't be remedied, co-management would be difficult to maintain, if at all implement.  there are too many people and not enough fish.  sacrifices need to be made by all folks up and down the river, but especially so in the more densely populated lower river villages; those that get the first pickings.  on the whole, there are more resources, both subsistence and otherwise, in the lower river, than the middle and upper portions.  the moose moratorium seemed to work.  i think we can see the same results with kings, as long as people are willing to make sacrifices.  king salmon aren't the only species of fish swimming up and down that river, and folks out there are no strangers to adaptation.