This was an increase for this summer. Basically, fish management is about catching fish first and foremost. For some reason I believe that the PST does not fully consider the plight of WA Chinook or SRKWs. If memory serves the PST has not set escapement goals for the listed fish so there is no target that needs hitting.

Last time I checked the fish don't vote. Those SE AK trollers are economically hurting and they vote. Plus, AK is (despite some nice sockeye runs) digging itself a deep hole with their Chinook (see Yukon, Kenai, and elsewhere) and their subsistence fisheries. The whole damn Yukon is closed; recently Whitehorse ladder had counted 13 when a fully operational and properly managed treaty fishery would have put 1,000 or more past there.