The courts determined that the Tribes get 50% of the available harvest. The courts did NOT determine that the Tribes get 50% of the fish. I find it difficult to believe there is an "available harvest", given the low returns we're seeing. If there is no available harvest, nobody gets anything.

That's an easy conclusion if all the harvest is in-river. But since alot of harvest occurs in the ocean, and in foreign countries (Canada and Alaska), the Tribes can easily claim that ocean harvest is taking the non-Indian share.

So, if we can eliminate harvest in the ocean, we would have alot more salmon returning to the rivers, and we would be able to allocate the catch between the Tribes and the State-managed fisheries much easier (commercial/recreational).

But that's not reality either......