How many would come back with no fishing? That was my question.

Years ago, Tacoma's agreement with WDF on the Cowlitz required X fish to return to the Cowlitz. WDF caught them all out in the ocean and then claimed Tacoma wasn't meeting the mitigation agreement.

Anyone else find it interesting that the latest NOAA-F Fishery Stock Status Report lists only the Stilly's coho as "subject to overfishing" yet the ESA-listed Stilly chinook are absent from the list?

This might only be a Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA) thing, not an ESA thing.

Also interesting is the fact that the NWIFC receives federal and state money. Money that comes from non-tribal taxpayers like you and me. Seem's I saw something in the federal law about the citizens having a RIGHT to know how that money is spent... just saying.

Bay wolf,

What state money does NWIFC receive? I think their major funding is via BIA Rights Protection section.