Originally Posted By: stonefish
Questions for those in the know......

Could WDFW if they had the gumption, apply for a section 10 permit in the background and still allow fishing under NOF agreements in the interim?

Say it took three years to get the section 10 permit. During those three years they negotiate with the tribes and come to an agreement each year at NOF.
Now the fourth year rolls around and they get the section 10 permit and say goodbye to NOF....or would all NT fishing need to stop during the section 10 permitting process?

Maybe a better way to ask this is can there be two permitting processes going on simultaneously?
SF


The annual after action (NOF) hand wringing inevitably brings out the call for a separate permit for WA State (WDFW). As soon as the separate permit discussion begins the "risk" of there being no permit for the State fishery during the permitting process comes up.

As with prior posts I am going to opine that the process is broken. Co-management/NOF is a sham. And hiding behind closed doors during the NOF process is symptomatic of that failure and also perpetuates it.

What needs to occur is a paradigm shift and WDFW could (and should) toss that rock by applying for its own permit and see what happens.
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