If we are talking WA fish, compared to BC & SEAK, what goes on in this state whether it be the NOF process or whatever, is nothing by comparison. Check out this picture made from data provided by the Chinook Technical Committee; part of the Pacific Salmon Commission:

http://wildfishconservancy.org/about/pre...ition-1999-2010

Most Puget Sound Chinook are not "far north migrating" going perhaps as far as mid Vancouver Island on both coasts.

You can find the Chinook Technical Committee (CTC) yearly catch reports here:
http://www.psc.org/publications/technical-reports/technical-committee-reports/chinook/

and see that about 100,000 Chinook are caught yearly off WCVI (West Coast Vancouver Island) alone. Data is sparse for ECVI as that is not an AABM (Aggregate Abundance Based Management) fishery, but the sport catch for WCVI is about 50K, so ECVI is at least that. The canadian Strait of Juan De Fuca would be in addition to the above, probably at least another 50K fish. The big question is, how many of those are Puget Sound fish? I recently saw Canada DFO (Department of Fisheries) DNA data showing that outside of the summer months 100% of the catch was Puget Sound in the strait, while during the summer when the Fraser fish are swimming by the percentage of PS fish drops to 50%.
FYI Canada does not clip their Chinook, but during the May-Sept perdiod on the Strait only fin clipped Chinook or smaller wild fish can be retained.

Of further interest, the CTC has published some good Incidental mortality studies. Our mortality on the releaseds mall fish is really bad; probably 30%. Many will swim away but die days later. That caught the fish on a commie troller with revival tanks, then out the fish in net pens to see how many die.
Our friends in BC still insist on treble hooks BTW.

On putting fish first, we as sport fishers need to follow the regs, be careful when releasing, & support the processes that are in place. Secret negotiations are not an easy process to support, but i believe the Pacific Salmon Treaty negotiations are private as well, so I view the tribes as a separate entity/nation. I am 67 y/o now & it has taken time for me to see things this way.

IMO the REAL failure is AABM, where a yearly Chinook Abundance Index is calculated by looking at 20-something "indicator stocks" as to what their projected number of returns might be (dam counts of previous years jacks/ocean netting of smolts/plankton counts/etc) then letting SEAK & BC catch 600K - 800K Chinook irregardless to whether there are mixtures of health and endangered stocks within that catch. The Chinook treaty is up for renewal this year & word is that the PSC managers have now realized that AABM fisheries have been a failure as far as conservation is concerned.