"I am affraid a war has been started"

Meaning when it comes the the rules process and testimony.

WDFW's own numbers show WSR support is the majority.

I have heard that the Hoh is expected to fall 1000 wild steelhead short of its escapement this year. It was 800 fish short last year. Since the process is going to be held this summer the actual numbers should be in by then. How long can the Hoh be healthy and support harvest when it is only getting 2/3rds of less ecapement?, (The lack of harvest would have made all the difference).

Acording to the numbers the Quileute system is healthy and has not seen the affect from the huge amount of harvest. Seems that the Sol Duc is holding that one together for now.

Like Parker said wait until ocean conditions change for the worse agian. It seems that many of our "healthy" systems are right on the edge or just under and any drastic change could cause colapse. Combine bad ocean conditions with over harvest droughts or floods and what do you get? You get the todays Hoh that turns into todays Puyallup the next cycle, and todays Puyallup goes extinct. Then the next cycle the Hoh goes extinct and the Quileute system turns into the Hoh of the last generation and so on.

I only fear that pollitics may make the decision this time around, and not science.