The State - News from Sept. 8, 1985

Convictions of 13 American Indians who caught and sold Columbia River salmon despite a federal fishing ban was upheld by a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, in San Francisco. Lawyers for the Indians argued that they could not be arrested for fishing in the river because their right to do so is protected by treaty, but the court decided that the defendants had failed to refute the view of the Inter-Tribal Fish Commission and state fisheries departments, which had ruled that such a ban is necessary.