I simply cannot understand how one side can apply for a permit without consideration of the other side's fishery. Each fishery affects the other and all succeeding fisheries.

The one way that it makes logical sense is that the fisheries are ALL fixed quotas. Hit that number and you are closed. Because to fish any other way requires that all fisheries be considered.

You can't fish a rate, because, again, the run sizes are different if there is a preceding fishery.

The State and Feds simply don't want to challenge the Tribes in any way, shape, or form.