Sometimes it is but mostly it's not.

I remember talking with Billy Frank when he was the head of the Northwest Tribal Fisheries Council about the Quinault fishing sturgeon in the Chehalis under the guise of fishing for spring chinook, they were getting a dollar a lb. for salmon and 8 dollars a lb. for juvenile sturgeon. He said, "You know what they tell us? They tell us to go fuc* ourselves".

Wasn't much he could do about it. And that was in the days when co-managers actually worked as co-managers.