It's going to be open, it shouldn't be, but the possible reason is valid.

They figure the escapement should be 28,000 fish, and estimate 38,000 will return. And With the 10,000 surplus, useless, and possibly dangerous over escapement of paper fish, for our protection they will need to be killed.

Since there were 10,000 fish over what's needed (in their science) the tribes want to have a fishery, and with the current laws in place it's hard to deny them a share of the (possible) surplus. They can either be given all 10,000 and the sportsman none, or they can split the take and have it open for both. 5000 for each group

If you give the tribes (any net fishery) 10,000 you can be assured they will get every last one of that allotment plus many more. Nets are very efficient.

The sportsman don't keep many and they predict only about 1,000 will be kept by them. This results in at least 4,000 more fish spawning than if they didn't open it for sportsman.

The problem is there is easy bank access right where most of the spawning takes place now, so a small group of "sportsman" stand there and repeatedly snag fish off the redds.

I would prefer it to stay closed for everyone (its been closed for a few years) until the numbers rebound and we actually experience a couple of good runs. There is nothing but a prediction of a better run this year, there's nothing that says the runs are improving other than the same science that showed them to be healthy during the extreme over harvest that lead to their demise.