Originally Posted By: MPM


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.



That's EXACTLY how it works.

On a decent run of springers, the CR impact is set at 15% of the wild run... 13% to treaty tribes and 2% to non-treaty.

Tribes already get 87% (13/15) of the impact to satisfy catch balancing.

It is what it is....
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