Interesting post, but there are some things that I am unclear on. First, legaly there is nothing requiring the Muckleshoot tribe to give the sportsman a shot at these fish. They get 50% of the harvestable regardless of whether WDFW lets us harvest our share or not. Second, I am not sure why you feel there would be and error separating wild fish from hatchery fish. The test fisheries used to determine the strength of this run have been in place for several years now, well before any fin clipping. So they obviously must have some other way of sepparating wild fish from hatchery fish other than just looking for a fin.

I personally am not fishing this fishery because of difficult access and such, but I honestly do not see the problem with a stricly regulated fishery on a healthy wild stock. Besides, Green river hatchery fish were actually taken from the Green river so you don't have nearly the problems with this river as some of the others around the sound. Am I missing something?