I agree. The Tribes grab the fruit on the ground and then the State even argued that they have a right/permission to blow away stocks. The State waltzed right into that one.

It is unfortunate, given the manner in which at least some tribes have been "sharing" the shared resource that without them the fish are **cked.

I recall Sam Wright, and I think it was while he was still with WDF, argued (at least to staff) that the NI harvest was taken by dams, diversions for ag, logging, and such. Those fish were just as dead as if they were caught in a net.

The Culvert Case just raises the curtain in a State that can't/won't fund basic things like education, mental health, infrastructure maintenance...