There is another thing that WDFW should do. Have a huge Dog and Pony Show before NOF. Input the models with the agreed to forecasts and then take audience requests for seasons. The ONLY limiter is that the NI side can't exceed 50%. Show people how catch shifts when you close the ocean, or take them all in the ocean, and so on. We need to know how we stay within our share and what the fisheries options are to do that.

Don't need to actually choose a fishery but know what the constraints are. For example, any ocean fishing means the Skagit is closed to coho. Now, if we fish coho in the Skagit, how do we take the rest of the stocks without the ocean? And so on.

They have the staff, they have the models. Once this is done, then we will know what to ask post NOF.