The Treaties have held, since about the very beginning of cases, that the Tribes' right is too dead fish in the boat. The right is meaningless if all one does is drag a net or hook through fishless water. The State, and probably the Feds, have a responsibility to protect the habitat to produce fish for them to kill.

As with all things WA, the state drug its feet in doing anything. Finally, as runs dwindled even more, the Tribes went to court and won. The state continued to drag its feet and went to the Supremes, where the State argued that it had the right to simply blow away runs of fish for "progress". Oddly, that didn't fly.

The State and Tribes jointly developed the plan of action, which the state continued to drag its feet on until recently when they finally realized that to meet the deadline they agreed to it would cost billions more than they wanted to spend.

I wont;t disagree with those who say better choices could be made when planning removals or that they are spending a lot of money to get damn few fish back. But, the best minds that the state allowed to negotiate came up with this and are now whining about meeting their agreements.