There might be some confusion here.

The tribe counts the fish at the ladder to see how many make it past the nets in the bay near shillshoe and in the waterway below the locks to estimate run size. That data helps determine the harvestable numbers. I think they get reimbursement for this expense but I'm not sure. It is not paid for out of the $750,000 in question.

The $750,000 expense is to count the number of sport anglers, the hours on the water, the success rate etc. It pays for the dockside counters, aircraft surveilance and data analysis to determine total harvest in order to satisfy the tribal claim that we might be taking more than our 50%.

You can find the data analysis on previous openers at the WDFW website.