But Todd-
I can agree with you on just about every point you make, but at some point I would like a person with your background to say just once that there is a huge affect on OUR fish by commercial interests outside of our control for now in the form of foreign fleets.
Sometimes you come across almost sounding like you are saying they have no impact or are proctecting the rights of the commercial fisherman.
It may be perception, but it is the way you force the habitat issue without saying we are in trouble until the commercials are stopped or at least monitored.
Our State has no data or information on what really is going on in the migration lanes of our Salmon other than BC and Alaska and those numbers are probably fabricated or adjusted to shut us up as well.