Geoduck posted: " The lobbying approach mentioned above, will almost certainly fail, . . ."

This alternative has potential. I believe that because in the last Legislative session (2019), recreational anglers, nudged by CCA, lobbied the Legislature against WDFW's requested General Fund increase, license fee increase, and extension of the Columbia River Endorsement fee. And all three went down in flames. The primary motivator was WDFW and the Commission double-crossing sportfishing by rescinding the 2013 Columbia River policy to phase out non-treaty gillnetting in the lower Columbia River. That action had such horribly bad optics, I'm still astonished that the Department and Commission didn't expect the outcome to be any different than it was.

So lobbying the Legislature has potential. And if we can cause sufficient financial pain to WDFW, and they know who and why it's happening, then that creates the environment where they can decide to change by stop expecting us to pay them to screw over sport fishing for anadromous fish. That does not mean that sport fishing for salmon will be like the good old days, because those days and ocean survival conditions are gone. It does mean that sport fishing for salmon can be better than what they are presently providing, and they can stop closing river fishing at tribal insistence by choosing to get their own NMFS' Section 10 ESA coverage, independent of riding the tribal/BIA Section 7 shirttail.