The local manager has little control over how many fish are eventually headed back to a particular system. But each season there is a pre-season plan based on a PSF to fish to a certain rate, to a certain escapement goal for the good of the fish.... and secondarily to a certain allocation split for the good of the fishing sectors.

You can't fault them for a run that falls short of PSF... nor give them credit if more fish show up than expected. They should however be held accountable to fishing to the intended rate and stated allocation in the preseason harvest plan. Hopefully doing so also puts enough fish on the gravel to make the escapement goal, but not always. In an extreme shortfall of returning fish, the pre-season conservation objective may well be met yet still fail to achieve escapement. This does happen occasionally, where even in the absence of all fishing, the total runsize falls short of the e-goal.