Too many people in WA support/push for the marine mixed stock fisheries. Ilwaco, Westport, Neah Bay, and so on inside, too.

Plus, i suspect that the tribes and feds still believe as they did in Hoh v. Baldridge, that we need the ocean fishery so the Tribe's can balance catches inside. As an example, let's say Hoh coho are forecast to return no harvestable. With no ocean fishery, the Tribe can't fish the river because the NI side has taken all available conservation measures. But, if there is coho mortality in the ocean, the Tribal fishery gets to balance impacts.

Plus, as we have seen by tribe; actions in PS, they don't want fisheries they can see (local). They will push for ocean fisheries and hope the NI's take all their harvest out there. That is the Perfect World.