Thanks Darth,

I'll also point out (as Smalma would likely) that these results are also the price of prioritizing pre-terminal marine sport above all else in the process. If we would let the fish sort themselves out a bit more, impacts to weak stocks would go much further, as far as season length and numbers harvested.

Recreational fisheries should have at least two tiers of structure - one for when the weak stocks are slightly more abundant and fisheries could expand more into the pre-terminal; and a second that focuses on compressing those fisheries to extend terminal and/or "cleaner" pre-terminal areas.

I'd also add that many of these pre-terminal PS fisheries must chew up the lion's share of available total ESA impacts, on these weakest stocks, to even stay open for the limited time they are. This year you see the results of an increased %, relative to the recent past, of Stilly impacts being shifted into the terminal area. Mind you, this likely only amounts to the Stilaguamish fishery getting about 30 Chinook salmon....they got 15ish last year.