In WB, the choice is WDFW's alone. Outside, it has to be a shared decision because the fish are part of sharing. There is no reason why, today, a decision can't be jointly made to do so. There is no reason why a more or less permanent increase can't be defined and made.

But, any fishery has bycatch. There may be a lot of jacks, they may be available, but their fellow-travelers have to have surplus, too, to absorb C&R impacts. Unless you can produce, by gear restrictions, a fishery that encounters only jacks.

Way back when, a local WDF bio would probably be looking at ways to have such an increase, may even have talked it over with Tribal bios, and if it made sense run it up the flagpole. It's what folks used to do; find solutions to problems.