Originally Posted By: Lucky Louie
Originally Posted By: RUNnGUN
"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."


In yesterday's NOF meeting in Olympia --WDFW stated NMFS response to them that it would be an 18 month process to go it alone.


Interesting how they shift the blame away from themselves in justifying why they want to keep the public out of the meetings. "The tribes won't let us." " NMFS won't approve our permits in time". What we haven't heard is what progress and how hard they are working to get us out of this mess! We will never truly be in a co-management system as long as one party has leverage over the other and can dictate terms of agreement!
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