Jerry -
The first posting seem to indicate that the only item of discussion was whether to harvest the"surplus" fish or not and no CnR.

Turn outs that CnR (WSR) is an option (#3). Further, that under even the most harvest directed option a 12.5% buffer is expected over the escapement goal.

I was not adovacating harvest or no harvest -just that the two situations above are very different and I found the first post unnecessarily misleading.

I thought a year or so ago I made my position on what I thought steelhead management guidelines could be pretty clear.

For consideration - if a 12.5% buffer above the escapement goal is not enough (let's save the discussion of the whether the goal is correct or not for later), how much buffer would be enough? Should the same buffer apply to any CnR fisheries targeting wild fish? If not why not?

Tight lines
Smalma