Salmo,

Very well stated.

As for the Raging. Well I would agree to a point. The fact is that when I moved into our house 5 years ago we were able to count about 10 coho spawning that year. The next it was down to 2. This year there was 1 fish. There weren't any last year or the year before. Given numbers like that I have to seriously doubt the validity of "MSY" due to the simple fact that there just aren't enough fish in the river for the gene pool any more.

I also realize that 5 years is not a long enough period of time to go by. But that is how long I have lived on the river so I could watch it daily. In truth I would like to see them close the Raging to fishing for at least the next 15 years or so.