Originally Posted By: Carcassman
In wild managed areas the Tribes would some sort of base number. Say (made up numbers) that they got the first 500 Skagit steelhead, all taken as incidental to other fisheries. Directed fisheries begin at 501 harvestable and are shared 50:50.

In the zones managed for maximum total production (hatcheries) the fish are shared 50:50.


So they would promise to quit fishing for their targeted species when they hit the magic number of wild steelhead?

Sorry if I don't share your confidence in that type of deal.

As an example, in 2012 the NIsqually tribe agreed to a Dungeness crab harvest number yet its members took three times that agreed upon number. In 2013 the tribe agreed to a number and their fishers exceeded it by two times. Their answer in 2014 was to not sign an agreement; same in 2015. Did someone mention setting up the Nisqually River as a gene bank?

Sorry to say, but a serious case of rose tinted glasses my friends.
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