"NMFS would likely respond with the news that the Dept's proposal can't be reviewed and approved until after the season is over. The Dept could respond that NMFS shouldn't and cannot put the State in such an impossible situation, and that the State will go ahead and fish without NMFS' approval of the State plan. Thus would begin Salmon War 2017."

Yes! Count me in! That's the best response yet!
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