Ok, I looked at the graphs.
As a scientist (non-fisheries). These charts paint an ambigious picture at best. Maybe for the puayllup the trend is one of clear decline (where WSR was already in place well before the ban), but for the rest there is a lot of up and down without any clear trend. Certainly all the charts show a dip the past few years, consistent with the poor marine survival.

The case for wsr based on the science is weak at best and certainly the weakest for the OP streams.

Anyone that says this arguement was won on the basis of strong scientific evidence needs to go back to and take remedial biology. This arguement was won based on a political maneuver and clever arguement.

BTW, the places that need help the worst (ie puyallup, cedar, etc), how do they get helped by this blanket WSR policy?

I think now taht the dust has started to settle, the WSR champions need to think a bit about what they have accomplished. I think the precedent of blanket approaches in fisheries managment are a very bad precedent to set. Similar blanket approaches on chinook maybe next . . . eliminating much fishing opportunity.

You don't agree with me? Lets look at the numbers again in two years and then it will be much clearer.