https://tidalexchange.com/2017/03/14/tribes-continue-obstruct-open-meetings-next/

"After months of questions and petitions to WDFW advocating transparency within the all-important season-setting negotiations with the Treaty Tribes, this years meetings are set to proceed in secret again in 2017. A recent release from the department specifically discusses the unwillingness of the Tribes to allow transparency into this important season-setting process.

While we understand that the Tribes are sovereign and are within their legal rights to refuse an open meeting, we also note that Native American Tribes collectively benefit from 20 billion dollars in federally funded programs."

The tribes lie about their catch numbers (ballard locks vs. catch reported way off last year by a factor of 10x) and negotiate in secret for HALF of the entire catch, then set up their gill-nets everywhere in the rivers and decimate the population of returning fish.