Well now do not disagree with many of the thoughts in the thread except the willingness to not look at the complete picture. Just about all of what is written is true but I will add this bit. In 2020 the Grays Harbor Wild Chinook run forecast at the bar is 11144 and allowable harvestable impacts to meet escapement are 1391. I realize this sounds bad and it is but let me add this little gem. Off the option two PFMC ocean model 7719 wild Grays Harbor Chinook will be taken in AK & BC with the addition of our marine the number of ocean caught wild Chinook is forecast at 8004. Oh and Washington state AGREED to this.

That habitat has been degraded is an absolute and to ignore that fact is absurd but to totally ignore the impacts of harvest is just as great absurdity. Look at the Grays Harbor numbers and get this. Your bloody Puget Sound stocks that are collapsing are suffering the same massive harvest impacts in the ocean. The willingness of some folks to only view the world through the PC environmental world and deny the other half the equation is not short sided but rather allowing themselves to be blinded by their own prejudices.

Off the soap box but it needed to be said.