WDFW and the Tribes really can't "force" change north of the border. To deal with Canada, it would take the Federal Government taking the lead. Canada will argue that the fish they take are balanced by Canadian fish the US takes. They will, maybe, give up our Chinook, coho, and chum if we pass on their sockeye and pink. Since nobody else harvests AK fish, there is no hammer unless the Feds wants to strongly impose ESA.

Screwing over the NI fisheries in WA is the path of least resistance. When that fails, then they will have to try something else.

I don't really think that the folks in charge really want to see recovery. Recovery requires that the pre-existing problems are permanently removed. We are not going to stop growing our human population, we are not going stop habitat destruction, we are not going to stop the mixed stock fisheries. We are just buying time until extinction occurs. Keping things listed actually prolongs survival of the species because we kill it by cuts instead of nuking it.