Thanks for the insight and recommendations John.

A question for you. While Mother Nature has certainly done stuff like this previously ... these events happened in a timeframe where the fish were not managed to harvest as many as possible up to a point of having just enough to keep things going in future years (that is if you have true faith in the fisheries models).

That being said, what are your thoughts on these fish being able to make a comeback when there are fewer fish returning to the watershed than would naturally occur without the harvest? Do we need to allow more fish into the watershed to help in the recovery of the year-class stock that is affected by this?

It's kind of the opposite of a naturally-occurring hardships that fish can face to from to time in these streams (ie - floods). But once again, it's something that our fisheries models don't take into account when setting "acceptable harvest" levels.

Thoughts??