The North of Falcon process is made up of a series of meetings from Seattle to Sacramento. The major stake holders including the tribes and sports fishers meet with fisheries officials both from the states and the federal government. The meetings will start with "open to the public" forums where proposals from all the groups are floated for discussion. The proposals have to do with allocation of the harvestable fish. Who gets how many and in what areas they get them. Things such as the area 5 and 6 catch and release Chinook seasons we saw this past summer are the result of the process. Those who participate in the process are heard and their proposals are considered and at the end in April the seasons and quotas are finalized and set in the rules we all must abide by. This process does not allocate more fish but is a give and take with the currently available harvestable stock. Traditionally the tribes veto most proposals that would benefit sports fishing and sometimes just walk out coming back at the end to bully things their way. That is changing as sports groups gain more and more power and savvy on how to work within the process.