Sorry to read that Bob. Of course we realize the issue isn't all harvest. The season was definitely a down cycle for coastal and Puget Sound steelhead marine survival. But harvest never helps a low runsize make escapement, but it's almost like that doesn't matter. Our collective addiction to harvest vastly supercedes our committment to conservation. Harvest trumps conservation, especially on the coast and Columbia, in contrast to the Puget Sound region. It seems like society, and the agencies that represent us, never get seriously interested in conservation until there is little left to conserve.

Addiction to harvest, addiction to electricity, addiction to oil, addiction to extraction of every resource instead of stewardship of the natural resource currency that actually sustains life on this planet. Like Pogo said, "we have met the enemy, and he is us."

Sg