Not knowing on how AK & BC impact PS returns it is almost everywhere that closer to terminal the greater prior harvest limits those fisheries. Ocean does not make its take exstend season then opps run size looks not to be there shut down the river fisheries. Other side of the coin is rivers get crowded fast! In the 90's the agency envisioned GH & Willapa bays being where the fishing growth would be but they managed to screw that up Willapa with the sorry ass policy and moving hatchery production to the South end of the bay. In GH they split the Hump and Chehalis then decided to manage the Hump for a wild Coho run that was mostly podigy of hatchery straying. This resulted in production reductions and the loss of B ( in front of Westport ) for fishing.

Thing is for WDFW once they start down a road they find it difficult to adjust to changing needs other than restrict or end fisheries. It is even worse in PS because these fisheries are intercept mixed stock fisheries. Key word here is mixed stock! In the 90's the Deputy Director once said when locals objected to GH and Willapa becoming a "Tillamook North" that " we are going to loose Puget Sound and we will need someplace for those people to go". That is happening I think but what I doubt is his crystal ball could have seen just how bad those that came after him could screw up GH & Willapa!