I think miss management is the obviouse reason we see the declines in the Pugtet Sound wild steelhead.

Obviously the escapement numbers set for the systems under MSY were set far too low and when nature for whatever reason needed that gross excess of fish spawning in the system to ensure safe numbers of fish the next generation nature got cheated because the safety nett was gone.

The exzact same thing will happen to the Quileute some day if we dont get away from MSY. And people will wonder what happened and try and blame it on everyting else other than over harvest. The powers that be will say "we just cant figure it out it was over escapement every year". Yep it was over MSY's escapement but not natures escapement and natures escapement is the one that counts.