GD ... I went back at looked at the data I had from the state regarding this year's wild run on the Hoh.

I was wrong

It was not supposed to be 40 fish over escapement, it was projected to be 40 fish under escapement.

That with a projected sport harvest of 668 fish.

Managing a river for a kill fishery and not projected to meet escapement?

Now you might see why so many of us feel that a blanket ban was necessary.

Given the historical troubles of meeting escapement with a kill fishery on this river, there is NO reason whatsoever there should have been one this year given WDFW's projections.

Assinine, plain and simple.

Have a C&R fishery and decrease the sport impact, and we would make escapement and many of the years we haven't met it over the last 12 years that the runs were really down, we still likely would have made escapement even with C&R mortality.

Management to extiction I think ought to be the the decription of the state & tribe's policy here.