It makes good management sense to me to shut down the fishing on a river consistently failing to make escapement or is it is predicted to drastically miss escapement.

I still don't understand why the Skagit & Sauk were open to spring C&R fishing for steelhead stacked on their spawning grounds a couple years ago when the predicted escapement was only 80% and the numbers had plummeted throughout the S-rivers for a couple years.