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Rich - You probably already know that about 60% of the Sol Duc sport harvest of hatchery steelhead occured during the Nov-Jan time frame in the 2001-2002 season. Only around 21% of the sport harvest of wild steelhead occured during those three months. Incidentally that is an increase of more than 20% above the 18.5% of the wild steelhead total harvest for the same three months of the 1998-1999 season. Are you suggesting that all fishing be shut down during that period to prevent the take of the early component that is unavoidable with any recreational fishing?

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Plunker, My intent and post was not to argue about a harvest rate and whether we should shut down fishing entirely during the early component of the run. You know where I stand on that statement, and we just have to simply agree to disagree.

My point was to ask some questions and stimulate some thought regarding if wild broodstock programs were really a useful tool in wild steelhead recovery. Maybe this was was the wrong thread to start that discussion.
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