As one who constantly tries to get folks to look back at the past, as far back as possible, there are some basic things to remember. Even if the habitat stayed the same and did not degrade, the simple fact of the Boldt Decision and Hoh v. Baldridge changed harvest patterns without changing run size.

Pre-Boldt, WDF emphasized harvest in the ocean. Boldt essentailly transferred half that catch to the Tribes in the rivers and Bays. So, a fishery that took a million fish could be reduced to half a million on the same runsize (more or less).

I believe, too, that in the 60s and 70s the Canadians were not targeting US stocks to the extent they did later. Whether it was the troll fleet commercially or the sport fleet (including US anglers going up there) these were all fish taken out of WA coastal fishery.