Smalma


From what I understand from your posts, plus talking with the current WDFW staff and bio's for the tribe, we are trying to predict something that we don't really understand and have little relevant data on, plus the parts of the puzzle we do have don't appear to be the major controlling factors. The one thing we do know, and have complete control over, is netting, so why not do the least possible harm with what we can control.

Nature is not responsible for the very small runs in recent years, plenty of fish returned in the first few years of poor escapement, it was our repeated and "managed" over harvest in an attempt to get the last paper fish that created the mess we've been in.

As far as I'm concerned the forecasting methods have proved to be so poor that until we can better use the data that we can acquire there should be no harvest at all.