The Columbia River Compact dates to 1915, when it was established by Washington and Oregon to resolve the chaos that resulted every year when the states established and tried to enforce their own commercial fishing seasons and regulations. The compact provides that neither state may change its fishing regulations, which are identical, without the consent of the other. Congress approved the Compact in 1918.

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This is a century-old Congressionally sanctioned law.

With the OR commission's express intent to commercially fish its half of the the river by its own rogue rules, isn't Oregon now in federal violation of the Compact?
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