I agree with Salmo that the recs, through their licenses, are throwing good money down a rathole. Mitchell Act is for mitigation and since it is US finds, feeding AK could be seen as part of that. Sort of the same with PUD mitigation in that the money is to mitigate lost catch and Canada and AK were catching them.

I also think that, while the recs are being screwed by paying of AK, BC, Treaty catch that the rest of the State, and Leg, sees that in a more positive light. "We the fishermen" and "we the citizens of WA" are probably two different entities with two different agendas.