Two Dogs,

Thanks for chiming in...but like I and JoJo both alluded to, the steelhead bycatch in many, if not most chum runs can be horrendous.

Probably not quite so bad in Puget Sound proper, but the Hood Canal fishery definitely gets some, and what's happening at the mouth of the Skeena and in the Fraser River is nothing short of a catastrophe for wild steelhead.

Also, before such e-goals were set for the northern PS streams, the numbers of chums returning were significantly higher...as usual, e-goals were set in the context of commercial harvest, not in the context of "what's there" or "what could be there"...or "what should be there".

Fish on...

Todd