Sorry for not keeping up with this thread. I went trout fishing for a few days.

At this point I mainly want to corroborate what OncyT posted regarding tribal monitoring of tribal harvests. It isn't perfect, but it is highly accurate, and like he mentioned, both the state and tribes assume that the unreported and unaccounted catch remains a constant, or near constant, from year to year and does not significantly affect any fish management outcomes. The big difference is that in the 1990s sometime, the state, not due to co-management really, but due to budget reductions, discontinued the daily sampling of all fish buyers, so the state no longer has the real-time soft data harvest information that they used to have. That was critical information in fisheries where in-season runsize updates were done. Some, and maybe all, tribes - I don't know - still have their real-time not-so-soft data because they are able to account for catch on a daily basis. The Swinomish are one of those Tribes. But I'm told the system for daily reporting and accounting for catch at WDFW no longer exists, or at least doesn't exist as it once did. So eventually the data all makes its way to WDFW, and the annual hard data catch reports are still done. And this information is posted on WDFW's website, usually 2 to 3 years behind the current date.

Sg