Every year I request the preseason forecast models for salmon and Steelhead and staff provides as quickly as possible. I then send them to over 250 folks on my list and let everyone else know the best I can they are available. Staff for the Chehalis in R-6 have been very good at trying to get information out to folks the best they can. With all that info I and others were totally focused on the the total escapement and just plain blew it as we did not look into the numbers for individual streams, our bad!

Frankly other than staff spoon feed us information I do not know what more could have been done to make us understand just how dire the situation has become. This is a tide water / bay harvest issue and frankly must be addressed as such. What should not happen is the upper basin community be punished for the continuing over harvest of Coho by tide water and bay fisheries be it QIN, NT Commercial. or Rec.