Some of the rationale I have heard when this comes up (each year with NOF) is that the process of obtaining our own permit would be costly, time consuming (5 years) and once a permit application was submitted we would no longer be able to ride on the tribal permit thus we would not be able to fish until our own permit were to be issued.

Not sure if that is true but as to the not allowing us to fish while a permit application is being processed.....I am at the point where I believe we should call their bluff and toss the whole thing into the political arena because what is happening simply isn't working.