Justr because something is legal doesn't make it right. Just because WDFW and the Tribes say there is a "harvestable" number doesn't make it so.

What were the salmon and steelhead runs like in 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s? In every case, those resposnible for the resource told us therer were harcestable fish. If this wewre true, why are the runs continuing to decline? I know habitat is a problem but the Columbia was overfished before dam 1 was built.

If habitat was such a huge problem, why are Puget Sound cutthroat and char showing nice population rebounds. They spend yttheir whole lives in eoither a PS river or the Sound itself.

The ocean is the problem, you say. The pinks and chum should be crashing. If we want stromng populations of wild anadromous salmonids into the future we have to simply stop killing them. Wuth better habitat protection, where it exists, and restoration where it is logical, we ban get back to some pretty strong runs. To keep them that way kill will have to severely limited.