United States v. Washington, 384 F. Supp. 312 (W.D. Wash. 1974), was a 1974 court case that reaffirmed the right of most Washington tribes to act as "comanagers", alongside the state, of salmon and continue to harvest it. The case was decided by Judge George Hugo Boldt of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. In 1975 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Boldt's ruling, and on July 2, 1979, the U.S. Supreme Court largely affirmed it in Washington v. Washington State Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Ass'n (Fishing Vessel). Justice John Paul Stevens delivered the opinion of the court, writing that "Both sides have a right, secured by treaty, to take a fair share of the available fish."
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