Originally Posted By: OncyT

Look, the tribes can ask for anything they want in a negotiation with WDFW.



Of course they can. And we can justifiably criticize them for it. The members of the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe live and work among the rest of us. If they want to view/treat non-MIT sportfisherman as the enemy to be screwed if they can get away with it, then they can suffer the enmity of everyone who thinks that's not a particularly nice way to act.

You are 100% right that we should get an answer from WDFW as to why they would agree to a "no potential rec opening" provision, but I don't think that absolves the MIT from any criticism if they are the ones that pushed for it.