The Section 7D sure is convoluted. The one phrase that does come up quite often is........"......license applicant shall not make any irreversible or irretrievable commitment of resources....."

Seems kind of ironic considering they are using gill nets and killing everything.

Reading through it, it would seem to me the tribes are probably given an exemption under Section 7H, which is linked back to 7D thru Section 7(A)(2). Maybe that's the link for avoiding everything? It surely doesn't seem possible that in 2 working days the tribes went through all of the normal procedures for acquiring permits AND got them approved???? I imagine they also certainly didn't go thru consultation with the State of Washington as called out.

If so, GREAT. That means we shouldn't even be worried about getting ours approved.

If not, my question, why can't WDFW use this same path?