Back when I was starting out, the WDG managers thought that 1 pair of steelhead per mile of stream was "enough". Maybe a few more per mile in a river. I worked on a small creek with a 7 mile anadromous zone. 14 steelhead was "adequate"?? And this was late 70s. That 1800 in the Quinault sounds like catastrophic overescapoment. Must have been. Look what higher escapements gave us.