If you read the Post Intelligencer, there is an article today which describes the results of a review panel conducted by the NMFS. The review panel basically ripped the NMFS, the WDFG, and the various fisheries management personnel, inluding the indians, a new sphincter for managing their fisheries with no regard for good scientific techniques. The review panel concluded that the fishing levels that have been allowed in the Northwest are not biologically sustainable.

This has nothing to do directly with the C&R season, but it does suggest that the agencies may be running scared and perhaps overreacting to the possible low return situation.