My understanding, for what it's worth, is that the tribes insisted on talking about chum first...specifically that they won't talk about anything until the State agrees to stop the commercial netting of chum in Puget Sound.

Considering non-tribal commercial netters have been allowed to wipe out very prolific chum runs in the Nooksack, Skagit, Stilly, Snohomish, Green, and Puyallup rivers, it's not an altogether bad position to take.

Fish on...

Todd