I was very troubled by comments from Larry Carpenter (Vice Chair WA F&W Commission) on the Outdoor Line last week where he seemed to reject T. Nelson's call for pursuing an independent permit for 2017 in favor of the same ole co-management nonsense. Larry says we have to get along with the tribes, need to have co-management. That's not true. For instance, we've not had PS crab co-management for some time now and, although clunky, that fishery is working. While it is probably not helpful to be antagonistic to the tribes, the State absolutely needs to pursue its own 2017 permit - both for leverage and to avoid another mess like this year. If that process forces the ESA/Treaty priority issue to a head, hire good lawyers and have it out. Really getting tired of the cowardly approach taken by some of the folks who purport to represent sport fishing interests.