Remember, too, that the Tribes will only have to justify half a fishery. Plus, since most of their fisheries are terminal they won't have to deal with balancing mixed stock needs.
They will be proposing, for the most part (Makah Troll and Fraser Sockeye notwithstanding) the biologically most appropriate fisheries which are terminal/extreme terminal on maturing fish in locations where it is much more likely that you can fish on numbers of fish that are reasonably known. It will be much easier for them to justify their proposals than for WDFW to justify theirs.
Tell us more oh Swami.
I’m looking at last year’s NOF handouts and there are various ESA listed Chinook stocks caught in Area 3:4 treaty troll mixed fishery when the Thomson salmon are in. In fact, there are more limiting Lake Washington Chinook caught in these areas than all the other fisheries in the state except the ET&FW tribal net fishery itself. The tribe’s impacts are 74% to sport 26% according to the WDFW model.
I guess NOAA didn’t get that memo.
The difference between your depiction and mine is the reason that NOAA and the Department of Commerce warn the tribes about a BiOp and NEPA assessment. Not only does NOAA require some assurances but so does the public and the processes are in place to be able to observe and dispute possible flawed information.
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