True, that, Drifter. But, it often wasn't the retiree who threw stuff out. It was on orders from above. Especially in R6 there seemed to be a desire to erase, or at least forget, the past.

Stepping into the wayback machine, one of my tasks when I first came to WDF was to collect and the get bound the PS "Key Management Documents". This included, among other things, the forecasts plus escapement goals, in-season update models to be used, an analysis of the season's catches and resulting escapements, egg-take goals at hatcheries, agreements with Tribes, other states, and countries. I think they did this on the Coast, too. Did being the operative word.
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