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"It is a section of the Shellfish Implementation Plan that allows EITHER a Tribe or the State to open shellfish fisheries without first having reached agreement between the State and all affected Tribes.

I think this is the latest implementation order (if not it explains):

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That may well be, but I wonder if the WDFW have implemented it towards sportfishers in any meaningful way.

After all, from year 2000-2017, in Shellfish Areas 2w and 4 (Pt Townsend to Vashon), the Tribal catch was 8.96 tons more than the State share PER YEAR , not cumulative.

Cumulatively? OK, that's 8.96x16=143.38 tons of Tribal harvest more than the State share over that time period.

Is that 50/50?

But I don't recall any "meaningful" special State opening (either with or w/o Tribal agreement) to equalize that difference.

(My numbers are straight from WDFW and their tribal catch reports)