Louie, my point is harvest reform doesn't equal recovery, and we can see countless examples of steelhead stocks that have not recovered, in spite of decades of no harvest.
Yet when ocean conditions fluctuates from bad to good, stocks rebound almost immediately.
Doesn't that indicate a river's carry capacity is the deciding factor in determining a stocks population?
I'm all about recovering our steelhead and salmon stocks, but advocating a policy that has clearly shown in the past 25 years, little to no recovery ability, seems like a big step backward to me.