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number of entry permits is less than the number of entry per- 
mits in the fishery, a voluntary buyback program for the 
fishery will be instituted by the Commission. Under the pro- 
gram, the Commission would enter the market for permits, and 
vessels and gear where necessary, as another buyer. Separate 
programs are to be set up for each fishery requiring buyback 
and each program is to be funded by the permit holders in the 
fishery for which it is established. Funding is to come from 
an annual assessment of up to seven percent on the gross catch 
of the individual permit holders. 
Salmon in Washington 
In the State of Washington, the Department of Fisheries 
manages the salmon resource. An objective of the Department 
is to achieve optimum harvest of the salmon without impairing 
their reproductive capacity or endangering the State's overall 
resource. The Department manages the harvest to insure fair 
distribution among three user groups: licensed commercial 
fishermen, treaty right (Indian) fishermen, and personal-use 
sports fishermen. The Fisheries Department is also engaged in 
issuing licenses and enforcing fishing laws and regulations. 
The Washington Department of Fisheries also comanages salmon 
in certain State waters. The Columbia River Pact is an agree- 
ment between Washington and Oregon for regulating, preserving, 
and protecting fish in the Columbia River. 
In 1974 the State of Washington enacted limited entry, 
in the form of a moratorium, on new licenses for the salmon 
fisheries between May 6, 1974, and January 1, 1977. This peri- 
od was designed to allow the State and the industry "to eval- 
uate the moratorium and recommend to the legislature be- 
fore January 1, 1977, a phase II approach to limit gear entry 
into the State's commercial salmon fisheries. 
Indian treaty fishing rights 
Through recent Federal court decisions, the States of 
Washington and Oregon and the Indian treaty tribes have been 
called upon to comanage the salmon resource they share. The 
question of off-reservation fishing rights of Treaty Indians 
in the Pacific Northwest and the degree to which those rights 
may be regulated by the State governments have been matters 
of continuing controversy for many years. 
Off-reservation fishing rights of Indians are based on 
a series of treaties negotiated between the U.S. Government 
and Indian tribes in the mid-1850s. These treaties provided, 
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