First, I am not the one who raised the issue of non-compliance by any user group! Well, other than pointing out the Nisqually debacle.

My observation was that the current reality is that tribal crabbers get first shot at the harvestable biomass which can and does result in the State (and particularly recreational crabbers) having a reduced opportunity to harvest its half of the actual harvestable poundage when the estimated harvestable numbers are far too high.

As to violations, the fact that 30% of P.S. endorsements are sold to new crabbers is problematic. That is why the Commission in passing the new P.S. Dungeness crab management policy tasked sport groups to take steps to help educate those new crabbers - something that is ongoing.

I noticed that your examples are fairly dated. A more current resource is the report to the Commission on 9 April 2016 for the 2015 season (report for the 2016 season has yet to be presented) in which there was a slide comparing violations found at the off-load sites. In 2010 the five violation types listed had a combined total of 26.0% and in 2015 it was 14.4%. In looking at those percentages it is important to recognize that one person could have been represented in each of the five categories; it does not mean that 14.4% of checked crabbers were in violation. In any case those numbers show a significant reduction in violations.

Now, if you have observed illegal pots or other activity I certainly hope that you reported them - no matter whether they were set by property owners or boaters.