Can someone clarify exactly what the state and tribal positions were going into the last meeting?

As I understand it...

WDFW was fighting for a chinook season in the sound (meaning areas 5-13), and then closed for coho. Tribes said no, because of possible coho impacts. Yet, the tribes are planning to net for chinook, sockeye and chum - all of which will yield coho bycatch (and wild ones, too). A NWTT press release even said there would be netting for coho "in a few terminal areas where there are identified harvestable hatchery fish"

Is that correct? If so, on what planet can the tribes be claiming that the WDFW plan was not conservation focused, and theirs is? Is it because of the agreed-upon sportfishing ocean season?



Edited by Chasin' Baitman (04/28/16 08:13 AM)