Stone - You're spot-on correct.

The Tribes can't fish selectively primarily because they use gillnets. Everything is either dead, or will be shortly after they take it out of the net. So mortality is 100% for gillnets.

(Don't ask me how WDFW, in Gray's Harbor, can assume something very different for State-managed commercial fishermen. But I digress.....)

I agree that if the State-managed fisheries are closed, there is no reason to raise and release hatchery fish. That's another reason the Tribes are limited in what they can push for. And it's another reason they're constantly looking to manage their own hatcheries. They could become more autonomous, and immune to hatchery closures.