Lucky Louie -
thanks very much; somehow missed see it.

Just gave it a quick read and found it very interesting. Several things immediately jumped out to me.

First the cabezon population estimate of 8,008 is just for the San Juan Islands. Obviously cabezons are found in other areas of Puget Sound (central sound and straits). Hard to believe that the total PS cabezon population is not several times that 8,000 estimate.

Of the dozen rockfish species (PS rockfish, copper, quillback, black, yelloweye, yellowtail, brown, tiger, bocaccio, carney, widow, green strip) that were population abundances were estimated the ESA listed yelloweye (estiamte of 47,407) was the 5th most abundant.

Curt