Example of MSY tool at work.

If the Russians used MSY as their tool of choice to manage their salmon like the PNW and most of the world then instead of 15% going to Japan by agreement this could effectively happen.

Japan sees the salmon runs so thick in the rivers that they inform the Russians that look at all those fish going to waste just heading up the river. The USA doesn’t waste all those fish and neither should you. How about if you let us take 80 % of the estimated run size That would leave enough escapement to spawn and those fish heading up river wouldn’t go to waste. Of course after several years of missed estimates and now 95% of the run size has disappeared from just 15 years earlier.

Now you have the most pristine place on earth with habitat galore with their salmon endangered to any bump in the road that the environment has to offer just like in the PNW.

I know simplistic without many factors factored in including the political pressure that is exerted by the commercials in the PNW to-get every fish that should be available in their mind.

Those of you that don’t think political pressure exists where commercials are concerned in the PNW.....

The commercials will seek to introduce legislation designed to end the annual march to the courthouse by the gillnet fleet challenging the Puget Sound fall chum schedule

If they can’t win in court they are going to take it to Olympia legislatively.