PNW..there you go again...The tribes have their own government and they don't pay taxes to support ours . They certainly use the benefits of our gvernment but hide behind theirs to shield them from scrutiny and accountability. I don't like antecdoatal evidence like my "examples" you chose to try to pick apart. The facts show that the tribes do most of their crabbing starting in October or so until the sports season starts in mid summer and then they keep right on crabbing in the summer. My example in 8-2 was only to show that the tribes have figured out how to clean out a popular recreational area prior to the sports pots being "allowed" to go in. WDFW will freely admit that they cannot and do not control when the tribes crab. Yoou try to paint a picture of the tribes following the same rules fair and square that all the rest of the population follows but that is a transparent falsehood and you should know that.

We thought that we had a go along solution awhile ago with sports only zones. Of course, it did not take long for the tribes to thumb their noses at those if they felt there were crab they were not getting. The tribes are not getting the easy pickins they have enjoyed since the mid 80s so they are making their own rules as they go along like the practice of going into a recreational zone and taking all the crabs to be kept alive and reseeding into the tribal areas. There are eye witnesses to this.

Recreational crabbing has exploded as our population grows and tribal effort has exploded as well as if to scramble to compete and get as many crab as humanly possible before the competition is allowed in. They do it with gambling and they do it with fisheries. They are going to attempt to do it in the legislature with all their gambling money. We must find a way to stop them in my opnion or the natural resources of this state will not belong to all the citizens but will be hijacked by the "super citizens" called the tribes. It's time to wake up and get busy. The general public has no idea how lopsided things are.