Todd,
Back to my post a back quite a ways. What I was trying to get across was that I you and I were room mates and we agreed to split utilities and rent, wouldn't you want to see some documentation. I feel like sportsmen are the ex-wife trying to get her fair child support. We keep being told how much the state uses and why the split is fair and that each side is paying so much, but seeing the actual numbers takes a court order. There really is no reason why the state couldn't easily provide the actual treaty vs. non-treaty catch allowances for each watershed. I am sure that when they sit down to make the allocations the tribe insists on or provides their view of the non-treaty vs treaty takes (and available catch) and that the state/Feds do the same. The fact that no one has provided these numbers for this arguement yet points to the fact that these numbers are not readily available. My opinion is that veiled practices like this are usually not by accident. It probably has as much to do with how much commercial take as anything, but it sure would change public opinion if the numbers were posted here; which lleaves a cynic like me believing there is a reason why they aren't.