Boater,

I don't know, but I doubt the Grays River chinook will recover under the HSRG recommendations. Their model assumes a 50% harvest rate, and the most productive alternative assumes a 10% habitat improvement, without specifying what that would be. Juvenile rearing habitat could sure be better, but I don't think that is limiting. Spawning habitat is trashed, and I think average annual flooding and sedimentation of redds will keep chinook egg to smolt survival at well under 12%. I don't know if a naturally reproducing chinook run with a 50% harvest rate can sustain itself, let alone increase, with that low of egg to smolt rate.

Sg