Hoh Indian Tribe v. Baldrige

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

CRAIG, Senior District Judge.

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

This case involves the treaty fishing rights of three separate Washington coastal Indian tribes as they are affected by the regulations of the defendant Secretary of Commerce governing fishing for salmon in the waters of the Fishery Conservation Zone off California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska and regulations of the intervenor-defendant State of Washington in state waters of northwestern Washington.

The action was commenced on June 22, 1981, and the matter came on for hearing August 3, 1981, on…