I never realized how well the tribes have positioned themselves and it makes me wonder how the co-manager arrangement was ever supposed to work? WDFW is not an equal partner and the tribes have everything to gain by being difficult. It sounds like a recipe for disaster to me.

How long do you think it will take for a few of the other 17 treaty tribes to follow the trail blazed by their Puget Sound brothers? Imagine if the QIN insisted all of Grays Harbor was closed, including all freshwater, and the salt out front as well. Impossible?