What the heck are you talking about? First you say Congress convenes the God Squad, then you say they dont. You mention something about
"they" exempting winter troll, then say its actually "directed take". "They didnt exempt winter troll and it isn't "directed take". The Biological Opinion is on the SEAK troll fishery. It isn't parsed out into bits and pieces of winter, vs spring vs summer. The
Biological Opinion that was attacked by WFC regarding the SEAK troll said this

NMFS determined that the amount or extent of anticipated take, coupled with other effects of the proposed actions, is not likely to result in jeopardy to the species or destruction or adverse modification of critical habitat. This is the Effect of the Take.

The BO said that the SEAK troll fishery would not jeopardize the likelihood of recovery for SRKWs and ESA Chinook stocks provided a number of Reasonable and Prudent Measures were taken. One of those was follow the provisions under the PST. The other main was increase prey availability for SRKWs by increasing Chinook hatchery releases.

THE WFC lawsuit objected to the approval of the fishery by saying that the Reasonable and Prudent Measures would not offset the loss by the troll fishery and that there was no evidence that increased hatchery production will help out or offset the fishery losses. They also dinged NOAA on a NEPA process violation.

Regarding Congress, do you really think that the West Coast delegation is going to spearhead a castration of the Dept of Commerce (NOAA) budget and take "credit" for the demise of SRKWs? They've got more important things to do like wrangle over gas prices and who to blame for inflation.