Nice try Rich, but your remarks range from borderline to entirely irrelevant. Much as I dislike MSY, it has nothing to do with the effects on this season's salmon fishing. The closures of many NT recreational fisheries is entirely due to not having any official "paper" covering incidental take of ESA-listed salmon and steelhead. Since the early 2000s, the state has had ESA coverage by riding the coat tails of the treaty tribes' ESA coverage, which they got by riding the coat tails of a fishery management plan submitted by the BIA, even though the BIA is not a fishery management agency, making the entire affair look like a bit of a sham. But that's a separate point and possible issue.

Any politician who receives money from tribes will pander to them because politicians, for the most part, can be bought. However, tribes have run into a stumbling block because state law prohibits politicians from accepting money from governments, and tribal governments, as they are always telling everyone, are sovereign governments. Tribes can buy campaign ads for a candidate they support like a PAC - and they invariably support Democrat candidates - but they cannot donate directly to a candidate. And candidates don't get rich on tribal casino or any other money. They can be bought so cheaply that no middle class citizen would call that amount enough to be rich.

Sg