I am friends with a guy who does creel census for steelhead every winter on the Forks streams. There doesn't seem to be any problems there with creels census. I think the animosity and disagreements between WDFW and the QIN is a major problem on the Chehalis and Queets systems.
In Area 11 where I fish for salmon there are creel census checkers and a WDFW test boat fishing all the time. Also a tribal test boat is fishing this same area. The WDFW test boat fishes and gathers data even when the area is closed to sport fishing.