I just had a thought.

As of now the Quileute tribe fishes on a scedual rather than a quota, alowing them to harvest more fish. Maybe this is due to forgone opportunity already as the sport fishers havent harvested all or their alocation for a good numbers of years and the tribe fishes more in order to get the excess fish.

Even though portions of the Quileute System are CnR for wild steelhead the system is managed on a whole for harvest, both sport and tribal harvest. Harvest is the main goal for the system without a doubt as far as management goes.

Here is what got me thinkin.

Now that it is wild steelhead release for sport fisherman wihtout exception, our goal is not harvest. There is no way our alocation can be managed as a harvest fishery, can it? If our goal is not harvest how can excess fish be taken by another party when we want those fish for maximum angler opportunity?

Wasnt the Boldt decision and alocation set up with a harvest goal for tribal and non-tribal? What happens when we change our goal? This does not mean our intenet is to give the other party our alocation. I dont think the decision ever intended or made revisions for the possibility that one of the user groups changing how they use their alocation did it?

Can someone help me with this?

What I am saying it would not be the intenet of the decision to give our fish away when we have changed our goal and we want maximum opportunity instead of harvest. Am I wrong?