Originally Posted By: AuntyM


The tribes are entitled to their half before reaching their own impact allowance. If you change the percentage of how many wild salmon or steelhead they encounter in their fishery, you run the risk of them not getting their half, which is what Carcassman was alluding to I believe.


I'm not sure I follow.

If non-tribal and tribal are each entitled to half of the target population, couldn't the tribes just get a larger impact allowance if they are using less efficient/selective methods?

In other words if the tribes kill 1 ESA fish for every target fish, and non-tribal kills 1 ESA fish for every 20 target fish, and you need to keep a 50/50 balance in the target harvest, what's to stop the authorities from allocating 2/3 ESA allowance to the tribes and 1/3 to non-tribal?

I understand that's not fair, but I'm not sure what other alternatives there are for maintaining a 50/50 harvest split in that scenario.