Question????
#1 Would the tribes trade their projected allocation harvest, for a fee, and then sit back as the run is 5x more than predicted, and the price being given is higher than what they thought it would be. The financial disaster of trying to put a price tag on fish that can never be Pre determinded in with even a 75% accuracy rate. In the past few years how many predictions were so wrong it was not even funny?

#2 All the folks who buy a liscense pay a fee in hopes of their area being one in which this allocation buy out would occur. What if you dont even live 50 miles from a treaty fishing areas. What if you live in seattle and only the columbia river system is ever the one that goes for this. Not a chance that this would go over well.

#3 What if a run with a 10,000 chinook return is projected and we pay the tribe for 5,000 of those fish. We cut them their checks and suddenly two weeks later the river is shut down due to low returns, blown out for fishing,etc, Do we then ask for the money back. You are nuts if you think the tribe would wait until the whole run can be counted and proven. I can see a whole lot of areas of, your numbers are wrong, and ours are right. so either we owe them more money for a bigger run, or they owe us for a smaller run than was projected.

We should look at every system and see where the tribal fishery has not been very profitable, or the tribal fishery is hurting the wild stock in that system and look back 10 years on the average returns,prices,and try to buy the whole tribal fishery on a five year time frame to be reviewed and adjusted according to the flucuatons in that five year time frame. Make exceptions for elder tribal fisheries and ceremonial fisheries to be monitored very closely for compliance in allocation amounts. Promote the savings in boat repairs,labor,nets,fuel, protection financialy from mother natures little gifts. Only those who can, and want to fish on that system should pay the increases in fees and the rest of the funds come from private, and the general fund?