This thread, and others, have (at least at times) a theme of Shared Waters and Shared Salmon. Sounds all warm and fuzzy; we can all get behind that.

Why not have WDFW (and the necessary public/open involvement) and each of the Tribes get together to define exactly what kind of fisheries they want to see within each U&A. On the Skok, for example, the tribes wants to harvest 20,000 Chinook, 30,000 coho, and 200,000 chum, with a netting schedule of xyz. The NI side wants 5,000 river chinook, 15,000 coho, and 10,000 chum based on a schedule/limits of abc.

Work this out to the ocean, including BC and AK. The models exist to create this. We would then know what kind of escapements we need to generate that run and what fisheries we will have.

In this way, we should either get agreement on fishery locations or force into the open that certain fisheries are unacceptable. At that point, the state can decide where to put its efforts.