It looks like coastal tribes are taking a page from the playbook of their Puget Sound treaty tribe counterparts: get non-treaty fishing off rivers.

". . . the fisheries could be opened via emergency regulation following agreements with comanagers,” Cunningham said.

This is what really pisses me off. WDFW has voluntarily handed over the management of non-treaty recreational fishing to treaty tribes. Ask Cunningham how concerned treaty tribes are about getting WDFW's agreement to tribal fisheries. They aren't. The tribes set their seasons and if WDFW were to make a comment the tribes didn't like, they tell WDFW to go pound sand. Yet these days it's become commonplace that WDFW will not schedule any recreational fishing that the treaty tribes do not approve. WDFW does not work for recreational fishing. Defund WDFW. Clearly we don't need them if they won't advocate and work on our behalf.