(July 5, 2018, 9:06 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals went too far in affirming that two Washington Indian tribes have the right to hunt whales and seals on their traditional hunting grounds in the Pacific Ocean because the ruling also extends the tribes’ right to take fish in a vast area where they previously never fished, the state’s wildlife agency told the U.S. Supreme Court in a June 25 brief in support of another tribe’s petition for a writ of certiorari (Makah Indian Tribe, et al. v. Quileute Indian Tribe, et al., No. 17-1592, U.S. Sup., 2018 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 2376)....