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Originally posted by Geoduck:
PNP,

What should the managers have done differently on the puyallup?

Its been WSR for over ten years, and the tribes have fished very little if at all.


Harvest impacts have been low or non-existent for over a decade yet the run continues to decline. Sounds like something other than a managment problem to me.
For all of you arguing that WSR has not helped to restore any ailing wild runs of steelhead, consider this:

Timing is everything. A tourniquet can stop a life-threatening hemorrhage, but only if it is applied before the dying patient has lost a critical volume of blood.

The problem with reactive fisheries management is that historically nothing gets done until the problem reaches a crisis level from which there is little hope of return.

Isn't it high time for a little pro-active strategy?
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