WRIGHT, J.
This matter involves the right of three persons to fish in Willapa Bay commercially by gillnetting without obtaining a gillnet license from the State of Washington, Department of Fisheries. Each of defendants claims the right to fish without a license based upon the rights of the Quinault Indian Tribe under the Treaty of Olympia, dated January 25, 1856.
The facts differ as to each of the defendants who were arrested on different occasions. The essential...
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