Here's an article about the process of setting up the upcoming fishing season. Kind of sounds like the sportsfishermen do not have a lot of say at the end of the process but a little bit at the start.
http://www.bremertonsun.com/news/2001/january/0106sheddingligh.html

Is that good or bad, good right????

Thanks for the link 'headman! The North of Falcon process is potentially going to give us more sport salmon opportunity this season. I hear that fishskagit.com is going to have weekly NOF updates as soon as the meetings start.