There is a Wild Card in all this. What will happen if the review that is happening about Listing various Coastal Steelhead Rivers under ESA lists the Queets. How will the Quinault's deal with that? Will they blame us or Man Up and change their ways until things recover.

WDFW stepped in on Skykomish Coho a few years ago and curtailed Coho fishing. They were listed as Over-Fished and WDFW did not want the Feds to List Them as Threatened or Endangered.

This year the river was opened back up when more Coho than forecast made it in.