I know this is ridiculous. I am a huge shrimp advocate and didn't even get to go last weekend due to my son's baseball tournament in Lynden. The whole time I was calling my shrimping friends to see how they were doing. There are only 17 or 18 commercial non-tribal licenses in the sound. Since the non-tribal commercials cannot go into Hood Canal, that spreads them out into the rest of the Puget Sound and the Straights. We get the majority of the shrimp on the non tribal side in Marine areas 8-1, 8-2, and 9. We get double the take in that area. However they get a huge amount of the straight and San Juans which we get a smaller amount. Since they do not get to go into Hood Canal this entirely offsets them into everywhere else. Sporties get 74,000 shrimp in the canal, they don't get anything there and that offsets our quota everywhere else. Last years state harvest (excluding the ocean) was 109,267 pounds sport, 77,187 pounds commercial non tribal. None of these numbers have anything to do with the tribes. I have no data for the tribes. W. Coyote, the guy that poached all of the shrimp last year only had to pay fines and still has a license? I am still waiting for the publication of the guys caught this year. I would like to see if I can get the tribal numbers, but is probably not possible due to the nature of knowing what we would do with these numbers. I am not happy about it either.