The 350K was designed as an interim goal, for the Cedar, to be evaluated as new information came in. Turns out, it was based on some recent years' good escapements and runs but the actual escapement was more like 500K, so that should have been the goal.

Then, it somehow morphed from a Cedar River goal to a watershed goal, thereby lowering the Cedar goal to at or below 300K.

Note, too, that the really big runs upon whioch the goal were based occurred at the peak of the Lake Washington sewage problems. Since then, the lake has been cleaned up, which lowers productivity.

While the old INTERIM goal probably made sense, the managers dropped the ball on evaluating what was occurring.

And WDFW tells us that they will use adaptive management to make sure we get recovery right?