I like the egg hunt comparison so let's add some additional information. In reality each of those eggs has a $20 bill inside. Knowing that the representatives of the little kids who will be hunting first go into the egg hunt committee's planning session and convince the group that there will be 1,000 eggs placed by volunteers when in fact they know only 800 will be placed. Based upon the 1,000 number the little kids are allocated 500 and the hunt proceeds with the little kids quickly loading up their booty of at least 500 eggs.

On paper that leaves 500 for the big kids, right? True enough on paper but in fact there are only 300 left for the big kids and very quickly the majority of those eggs are collected and while there may be another 3 hours set aside for the big kids to hunt the fact is that most of them give up early - not because there is no opportunity but because there is no meaningful opportunity.


In short, there needs to be a realistic overall harvest number agreed to among the co-managers which also needs to take into consideration any migration north of the South Puget Sound population crash.