Chasin' Baitman -
Let's see if this helps.

To keep it simple let's just consider two PS Chinook stocks. The allowable impacts for each stock varies depending on the current productivity of each stock. For 2016 the mid-Hood Canal wild Chinook the allowable impacts (the maximum the can be killed -whether in harvest or handling mortality) is 12%. For a stock like the Nisqually the allowable impacts are 52%.

Because the Mid-Hood Canal stock was the weakest being caught in the mixed stock recreational fisheries (most of Puget Sound outside of extreme terminal areas )those fisheries would be limited by the Mid-Hood Canal impacts. Even though the recreational fisheries often more than 1/2 of the mid-Hood Canal impacts clearly there likely would remain a lot of impacts left for the Nisqually (the exact number would depend on the stock mixture in each of the various mixed stock fisheries).

If the non-treaty folks wanted more equally balance the catch we would need to move away from those mixed stock area fisheries to more terminal fisheries. Doing so is complicated by the fact that many of the recreational anglers want to fish in areas like the Straits and central sound. Further once the Chinook reach the more terminal areas they seem to less inclined to bite making it difficult for the recreational fishers to catch their "full share" in those terminal area. Of course the non-treaty fishers could easily catch their full 50% if they were willing to confine the fishing to the same terminal areas as the tribes and were willing to catch the non-treaty fish with nets.

The question we each have to wrestle with is it more important to achieve equal catches even if it means doing so with gill nets or to emphasis the recreational fisheries in those mixed stock areas where most anglers seem to want to fish? There is little doubt that under the current system were nearly 1/2 million salmon angler trips are made in Puget Sound annually the economic value of that recreational fishery exceeds what would be produced with a commercial fishery.

Which do you prefer?

Curt