Even if WDFW actually tries to achieve 50:50 that is for the whole catch. If a downriver takes 5 days to get the share and mooching 10 or 20 what does it matter if the share is caught? A fish taken on a downriver, or by mooching, or by plunking, or with a swung fly it is still dead and counts in the catch accounting.

The share is not to an individual fishery, like sports get 50 and the nest get 50. I have seen DFO try to divide up sockeye among inside and outside trollers, two different purse seine groups, and three different sets of gillnettters. Not pretty, especially when the targets were to the fourth decimal point.