The summary I read in the Times http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...rts-court-says/ seemed to indicate that this ruling established (or perhaps upheld?) that the state must maintain a minimum level of fish for the tribes to fish for.

What happens when the fish runs continue to decline to where the tribes contend that their "half" no longer meets that minimum and they are granted exclusive access to the runs? Mass exodus of retired fisherfolk from the state?
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. . . and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and have dominion over the fish of the sea . . .