WDFW is sure going nuts with an idea that as far as I can tell has never been proven as a recovery method and even the HSRG report clearly states won't recover anything but speeds up the process as new habitat is reopened..Want more wild fish take down the dam's faster.. Quote

Separate time lines. Some rivers dont have dams. Not going to hold up selective harvest until the CR or any other dams are dropped. Why the hell do you think they bought off the tribes for 900 million. If you hammer down every other issue involved in recovery, the hydro advocates have nowhere to run. In the meantime, a few dams get dropped. If they get recovery, it proves its value. But fish are required. Commercial harvest is no more important to our survival than apples. You can own a fishing pole. What you dont know, is if and when a Dam removal advocate will give up on the hydro projects and turn their attention to the immediate extinction of another run of salmon. The most publicized option is Marine Reserves.

The rockfish recovery program written by the state began with no recovery efforts other than shutting down all bottom fishing. Some advocates in the process wanted to establish Marine protection areas in Puget sound, that would have affected salmon fishing in puget sound. They didnt even want to establish artificial habitat for the rockfish to hide from seal predation, which based on a study, consumed rockfish as 12% of their diet. But 15,000 seals were not a problem in Puget Sound. Just anglers.

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The HSRG also concluded the hatchery and harvest reforms alone will not achieve recovery of the listed populations in this ESU—habitat improvements are also necessary. In addition, the effectiveness of habitat actions in this ESU will be greatly increased (more than doubled, under the HSRG assumptions) if they are combined with hatchery and harvest reforms