Well here is a thought. In GH the escapement numbers are court mandated / approved with Boldt & then Hoe V Baldridge. So if with a magic wand habitat would be as in 1860 when my family settled near Elma, what would happen? Not much as any increase in salmonids due to the now pristine habitat beyond the what we currently have will be harvested. Not one fish more would on paper be allowed to spawn.

To the commercial thing on harvest. In GH it was the QIN that got several sport fisheries open. Why? Well you had tribal catch, then commercial, and trib sport and harvestable paper fish remained. One year we had numbers not jiving so QIN told WDF that non treaty take them or they would, so we got mainstream S. Monte and eventually the bay. So around GH it boils down to the the court mandated escapement numbers and then anything above that is harvested. Period, it is not open to discussion. When say Steelhead went to C&R this was supposed to be a real gain for fish. Not exactly as all it did is lower sport impacts that the QIN then used to cushion the over fishing by tribal fisherman. The argument among locals was will / did C&R help? My thoughts is did zero as the tribes just picked up the impacts. Everything above the numbers agreed to in court will be harvested thus any gains though enhancement or so called restoration will be harvested. By somebody!