Limited entry to commercial salmon troll and sport charter licenses in the ocean, along with limited entry to commercial purse seine and gillnet licenses in Puget Sound were in large part a response to US v WA. When essentially the same amount of harvestable salmon from year to year had to be split 50:50 with treaty fishing tribes, the non-treaty harvest had to decrease.

Limited entry was one means. Reducing the salmon catch limit from 3 to 2 was another. The 1 chinook limit in the ocean and LCR is yet another means of reducing NT harvest.

Prior to the limited entry laws, you could buy a WA sport-commercial license to sport fish for salmon in the ocean with no catch limit. You could fish up to 6 rods. A guy I knew had one of these licenses and took a month off his job each summer and sport fished in the ocean and paid for his "working vacation" with his catch.

A lot of regulations intended to reduce salmon harvest have their roots in US v WA.

Sg