We can have wild stocks of salmon in most of the PS streams. Some watersheds, like the Elwha and Skagit, could be fairly large. And they would be sustainable.

But, if you want to kill a lot of them, then wild won't work. We have shown that we can have wild trout, rather large fisheries, but C&R.

You are right in that we need to clearly define goals. Did a chapter in an AFS book on models for salmonid management that examined such a review. The fishermen wanted to harvest 20K Chinook annually. And recover the wild run. It was pretty much impossible, We do need to very clearly articulate goals and not use the warm and fuzzies of "wild fish", "sustainable fisheries" but put solid numbers to it.