Well if harvest management is to have any meaningful conservation impact, the only way to put more fish on the gravel is to reduce the exploitation rate. Bottom line, the impact must be reduced to something less than 15%.

I laid out a scenario that allows that to happen while increasing the number of hatchery removed from the system.

If folks want to be defeatist about it from the get go, then I suppose it's a lost cause. Let's just pack up all our gear and go home. What's the point.

I'm not quite so ready to give up. The only way we're gonna satisfy the harvest demands of the three stakeholder camps.... AND.... put more fish on the gravel by reducing the exploitation rate .... is to fish with maximum selectivity. We need to usher the tribes along to appreciate the benefits of selective fishing. Definitely more fish in the box for them, potentially more for us, and inarguably the only way to put more wild fish on the gravel.

Anybody else have an alternative plan that accomplishes those objectives.