Rivrguy,

The way it looks on paper when the gillnet days are over-layed makes it consistent with how the state has always planned to manage terminal area salmon fishing. Since the sport fleet is inefficient, the commercial net fleet is used to take the run down to near the escapement goal, with the freshwater salmon fishermen fishing on the escapement plus a few crumbs to harvest. The strategy actually achieves what the co-managers want, which is for no more fish than the escapement goal to hit the gravel. But that means fewer fish swimming past the freshwater sport fleet. The hard realization is that high quality freshwater salmon angling is not part of the salmon management plan.

Sg