It sure seems like the approval process hinges on the iterative analysis of both T and NT fisheries, but I don't think it needs to. So long as whatever fishing is proposed doesn't exceed allowable ESA impacts, NMFS has no dog in the fight. Absent ESA impacts, it's just an allocation decision between the co-managers. But because the NOF process is a harvest allocation down to the very last paper fish, and harvest is limited more by ESA impact limits than stock abundance usually, approval is contingent on the sum of all modeled ESA take.