Just for the heck of it I did a little poking around at WDFW pre-season forecasts and the result escapements for the Humptulips wild coho. The most recent year I could find data was 2020.

In 2020 the forecast was 7,290 with a resulting escapement of 1,241 or 17% of the forecast.

In 2019 the forecast was 17,400 with a resulting escapement of 1,175 or 6.8% of the forecast.

In 2018 the forecast was 9,891 with a resulting escapement of 804 or 8.1% of the forecast.

I did not look at any earlier years.

Assuming the forecast and escapement estimates are in the ballpark there is some serious management issues in the various fisheries. Seeing average exploitation rates in excess of 80% is almost certainly excessive for western Washington wild coho populations (Puget sound primary wild coho populations have ERs that vary between 30% and 60%).

Curt