What's really needed is an I situational memory file. All the weekly catches by both net groups, all the sport sampling by date, location, tide level, and so on.

Way back when the weekly Fraser sockeye meetings spent the morning going over all the current year data (test fisheries, commercial catch, passage at Hells Gate, stock composition, flows, temperatures, ocean conditions, diversion) and then we looked back at historic data which in some cases went into the late 1800s.

When did in-season updates part of the process was to check with the field guys to understand what they were seeing. Yeah, we had numbers to use but the actual and historic data had to support actions.