The Cook Inlet Driftnetters are delusional if they think that the feds would manage the fishery for their benefit. They clearly have no idea how federal fisheries are managed and would be just welcoming a whole new set of problems. Regardless, the feds have no interest in involving themselves with salmon management, so these folks are wasting their effort. As per this article - Ted Stevens was the king of federal overreach in Alaska's fisheries. Look at the Bering Sea crab fisheries and American Fisheries Act. Two management tactics pushed through by Stevens to by-pass local councils through federal legislation all for the benefit of a few Seattle based corporations who have now taken those fisheries away from ordinary Alaskans.