AuntyM - We'll just have to agree to disagree on the attended pot issue.
WDFW LE simply doesn't have enough boat deck capacity but if I were to try and anticipate every potential action I could speculate that they would increase the P.S. endorsement and spend the money on bigger and faster boats to clear out the unattended pots, reduce the catch and ultimately the number of recreational crabbers and consequentially the amount of licenses sold. But I am not going to get into that negative mode.

What I am going to do is bask in the change in crab management policy and do my best to show that the recreational crab fishery has been unduly constrained by the past (now obsolete) policy through my own crabbing activities. Also, to help ensure that the recreational crabbing community is well educated as to the rules hopefully to reduce violations and further to encourage WDFW to report violations in a non-prejudicial manner for both the commercial and recreational fisheries.

Now, back to the original problem.....if the tribes cannot or will not police their own and/or responsibly coordinate with surrounding jurisdictions to investigate this and similar events then I again suggest that there are tools available for the higher authority (FEDS) to utilize if they have the political will to do so.