I was curious about the claim that recreational harvest is responsible for demise of rockfish in Puget Sound.

The attached graph shows;
harbor seal .vs. (recreational + commercial) harvest of rockfish. The data includes Puget Sound seal populations from NOAA reports, seal diet from WDFW reports, recreational harvest and commercial harvest from WDFW reports.

I think the green strategy is to blame recreational fishermen for damage caused by overabundance of seal in Puget Sound. Declining herring, salmon, rockfish, and orcas population.

Same information that I presented at the Friday Harbor meeting, albeit a graph rather than percentages.

Interesting to note, NOAA recommended managing harbor seal population to 7,000. This would have leveled harbor seals rockfish consumption to 1,700,000 pounds.