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the politics of salmon 171Indian commercial and troll fleets, and paid bonuses to non-Indianfishermen who quit the business. It adopted a new managementsystem with regulators that included the Departments of Fisheriesand Game and a tribal commission. It replaced ancestral fishinggrounds with smaller tribal commercial management zones.In addition, the settlement called on most tribes to give up fishingfor steelhead commercially. Sports fishermen flocked to Magnuson:“We don’t like a lot of this, but they’re pretty close to what we want,the steelhead. If we could just get all the tribes off steelhead, commercialfishing, we could support this package.”Magnuson made the change. “At that point, everybody startedclimbing on planes to go back and see people in the agencies and thecongressional folks, including the tribes,” Waldo says. “If you’ll changethese three or four things I can support this. So, it was pretty clearour effort was over.” In good humor, Waldo recalls task forcemembers adding a last page to their final notebooks with the lyrics tothe Johnny Paycheck song, “You can take this job and shove it.”Billy boarded planes to Washington, D.C., often after the BoldtDecision, representing tribes, meeting with crucial players in thefisheries dispute, and working closely with longtime friends SuzanHarjo and Sue Hvalsoe, both Carter appointees. Harjo recalls a concertedeffort within the Justice Department to persuade Indians toagree to a lesser allocation: “Of course, federal people can make itsound very attractive if you go in their direction,” Harjo says. “It wasvery heavy handed. Billy wanted to keep track of who was eating withwhom. We would drive around town in Sue’s little Volks-wagen. . . .You’d see tribal leader x with the Justice Department or someonefrom the Hill. It was just fascinating to see the groupings of people. Ittells you something, especially when, at the next day’s meeting,someone would be telling you to agree to something less than 50percent. Collectively, we had a lot of information.”The three quickly recognized that they weren’t the only group