Let's say that NOF ends with agreement. The state then submits only their fisheries, based on the agreement. Let's see NOAA deny the very fisheries they would approve if they were submitted jointly.

Time to call the bluff. Shutting down most of WA's fisheries should be a political bomb because any waterbody with a listed fish would need approval, even if the fishery was directed at, say, catfish.

On the claim that "it costs money". It's license holders money.