Quote:
Originally posted by POS Clerk:

“The 17% consideration for wild winter steelhead impacts was only a
verbal discussion amongst ODFW and WDFW on a manager to manager basis.
It never went beyond that. The discussion occurred in December”

So in December of last year WDFW staff was proposing a 17% impact…
Doesn't surprise me one bit. I think these "managers" have all lost touch with their humbler roots when they were real biologists.

I don't care who's trying to justify those numbers, they are completely indefensible from a biologic standpoint.
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