I will be there and will drag others to the meeting. This happens all too often in so many fisheries that it should not surprise anyone.

There should be no problem in getting a more accurate counting, tell the tribes they need to report the catch at the end of each day or they don't fish...period. Or tell them they get an even split from the capture tank, they can fight over how the fish are divided between each tribe on their own.

This way run estimates don't play into it and will have little to no effect on harvest.

The split is even more lopsided than what is reported here, they only put 6,800 fish in the lake, 13,800 were captured. The entire escapement comes from the sport catch side. This was done from the first year because the tribes wouldn't agree on a number, they wanted a very low figure, I think the WDFW number was almost 3 times what the tribe would agree to. WDFW decided that since sportsman can't catch 100% of what's put in the lake the escapement would be met by what we aren't able to catch. So the tribe doesn't contribute at all to escapement. This is how it was explained to us the first year it was discussed at the NOF meeting in Millcreek.