I'm with you, GutZ. Boldt was decided at a very different time, both in terms of tribal enterprise and salmon populations, and it is no longer relevant.

My statement that the Tribes get low-holed worse than anyone was in reference to the fact that after open ocean fisheries take their toll, the Tribes aren't getting anywhere close to 50% of the available fish (in most fisheries, with a few Puget Sound fisheries excepted). Personally, since they are now neck-deep in our politics and getting all sorts of tax breaks on their growing, expanding enterprises, I'm not sure they're any different than any other American special interest at this point, and I wonder why we still treat them differently.