Like I said, the PS bycatch is somewhat nominal, and is mainly catching hatchery steelhead, anyway.

On the Fraser River, Thompson River wild steelhead are caught in great numbers, as are the Skeena River wild steelhead...a quick Google search should come up with many hits about those fisheries.

I'm familiar with the difference between an exploitation rate and a fixed harvest rate...both can work fine, so long as the numbers are set correctly.

For PS chums, I'm not sure what the limiting factor is for them...but the numbers are down, and down quite a bit, and anyone who spends much time out there looking at 'em knows it.

Back when management paradigms were set for Chinook and coho there "plenty of fish to work with", too...fat lot of good that did the fish..."plenty of fish to work with" is often a euphemism for "let's go catch a whackload of 'em"...

Fish on...

Todd