Boater1, please pass along the other things that change.

Bruce ... two instances of complete closure on the Hoh in late season because we were not going to meet escapement based on the returns / harvest up to that date. Had the sport impact been reduced by 90% (giving a generous 10% mortality on the fish that were harvested that would have been released) ... we would have made escapement and the fishery would have remained open.

There's two specific examples that affected me directly.

Now on the the 100+ rivers that are now closed in this state, you're going to say harvest didn't play a role in the decline of the run in a single one of them?

If so, you've lost every bit of credibilty you may have been clinging to