Meeting the conservation objective in GH on any given year is attributable to blind luck as much as it is any pro-active management by the agency.

Current practice patterns are much more prone to errors of over harvest than under harvest. Chronically understating the harvest efficiencies of both fleets and underestimating the true impacts to non-target stocks isn't doing the fish any good. The number one factor that allows the basin to ever make escapement goals is actual (post-season) run-sizes that exceed the pre-season forecast.
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"If you don't kill them, they will spawn." (Carcassman)


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