Although managers move in mysterious ways, they are "stuck" with an agreed-to number that says there are some harvestable fish. Since they don't do updates (and Nisqually chum had one of the sweetest ones I've ever played with) they are stuck in a legal sense. That they agreed not to intensively fish shows concern, and they may have other indictors like lack of chum in by catch, nothing showing in early surveys.

It will also be an opportunity, and many tribes take advantage of it, to collect age, sex, and length data plus get some catch per effort data.

Soem trasparancy on the whole situation would help immensely.