I do not understand how science can figure out the carrying capacity of a river?How does somebody turn something as complicated as that into a number?This is I believe the weakest and most manipulated step of the msy.You can count returning fish.You can count spawning fish too some extent.You can presume to count and track smolt.Those are numbers straight simple.But how do you turn 40 miles of watershed into a number to work against?

Is this not the number that the rest of the data works against?

Smalma,
I have been thinking about a functional river and what is it?I first get a picture of me on my favorite river and that is it. No nets no nothing else just me and mother nature.That is a functional river.Seriosly they functioned only before our intervention.

So that brings me to the relisation that there are no functional rivers in the state of washington.Our rivers canot Be functional with the ever growing impact of man.This will give me something new to think about this next week up in the woods.