Check this article out. Some of the facts it gives gives you a perspective on how degraded the OP river systems really are. They seem healthy to the standards as they are the standards of the lower 48.

It says the Quinault once had a run of 1 million sockey. Isnt it like 24,000 for minimium escapement now. The Queets had 55,000 sockey. Whens the last time you saw Sockey in the Queets? It dosent tell you how many the Elwa had but he said it was stagaring. Also some other interesting info about the Elwa. Said it once had a Hybrid Steelhead/Searun Cuthroat cross up to 12#. Theese fish are now extinct, last documented about 40 years ago.

Read it its interesting. here it is, www.drizzle.com/~rdpayne/opa-goin1.htm