"Can I bring up the Nisqually River one more time.....no hatchery fish for approx. 20 years.........AND YOU FISHED IT LAST........same issues face Nisquallly smolt as all other rivers in Puget Sound........."


You have to remember that if aggressively push a run down continuously, fails continuously to meet its escapement levels, regression occurs and the run finally collapses and in some case can become functionally extinct. We seem enact these strategies to late where recovery will take a significant amount of time, which again is implemented as a reactive model. A proactive model would include to impose such strategy to a river before it collapses, but the gnashing of teeth is pretty loud.