To add to what Rich G said;

The preseason guesses are never right and are always too high; allowing the indians to net the hell out the rivers; resulting in the sports fishermen getting screwed.


PCNW;
I just don't get it. You talk all you want about habitat, ocean survival, and so on, but it just doesn't matter if the fish can't make it up the rivers to spawn due to the nets.

First off, lets worry about getting the fish up the rivers(this would be by pulling the nets). Without fish any in the river to spawn in the first place, how can the run grow? Once we have decent numbers of fish returning to spawn then we can concentrate on habitat loss and whatever else you feel you need to blame.