The ESA doesn't care who kills the Chinook, or how, only that there is a permit and that the amount killed is covered by the permit.

The ESA also doesn't care if the tribes get 95% of the allowable impacts and the rest of us get 5%.

US v. Washington does care who gets the impacts, but also doesn't care how they are attained, whether it be by catch and keep, catch and release, or gillnet...and if the tribes and State share the catch, the tribes will likely get a significantly higher portion of the impacts, since their chosen method of fishing uses more impact per fish harvested than ours.

At the end of the day, the ESA cares about how many dead wild Chinook there are, the Boldt Decision cares about how harvest is shared, and the allowable impacts are the nexus that connects the two.

Fish on...

Todd