Salmo, but is the data really good enough, considering we haven't been able to manage our way back to a favorable state of recovery?

In my world if you can't measure it, you can't manage it. Right now we have a ton of talented people trying to do the best they can to formulate recovery options, draft management plans, set seasons for all users groups, etc...but they use a broken yardstick and the data they work with is very error prone and subject to constant revision.

Accurate data collection, while very hard to achieve, is key to all aspects of fisheries management. All the season adjustments, harvest quota's, impacts, etc can the trickle down after you have good data duality to begin with. As you know Salmo, if you start with bad information in the beginning, it's quality only gets worse the more you use it.

Absent of good data, considering the resource we should consistantly err on the side of caution, and opt for something #4ish a lot more than we do today.