While those numbers look deplorable.... they are meaningless without a breakdown of wild exploitation by sub-basin. From the standpoint of escapement objectives for each sub-basin, hatchery fish are irrelevant.

This habitual lumping of wild/hatch and Chehalis/Hump in the reported catches just makes it all the more difficult to assess to what degree which users are impacting wild escapement for each species.
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