Todd -
A little more about that economic windfall from that Puget Sound "unmitigated disaster". The latest years I can find estimates of the total man days of angling effort in Puget Sound marine fisheries are 2010 and 2011.

In 2010 the estimate of angling effort was 307,000 days or at $82/day roughly a 25 million windfall.

In 2011 (a pink year) the marine effort estimate was 424,000 angler days or roughly a 34 million dollar windfall.

Have not found an estimate for the freshwater effort but for those two years 38% of the Chinook, 40% of the coho and 68% of the pinks were harvested by the recreational fishery in freshwater.

I would be comfortable with a conservative estimate that recreational salmon fishing for the marine and freshwater areas of Puget Sound contribute more than 40 million dollars on even years and 55 million dollars during pinks to local economies.

Curt