How can Puget Sound ESA chinook be properly managed when they pass through the jurisdiction areas of six different managing agencies? What are the policies of the NPFMC, ADFW,Canada DFO,PFMC,WDFW and the NWIFC in regard to ESA Puget Sound Chinook? Are they all acting in unison and have a global plan for recovering these fish? Fat chance of that. Probably more or less like this for each of these managing entities:

From the NOAA letter
"The second legal requirement for approval of the annual fishery management measures is
compliance with the ESA. The impact of the PFMC fisheries on threatened Puget Sound Chinook has
most recently been addressed in a 2004 biological opinion. The analysis in the opinion, which
concludes the PFMC fisheries are not likely to jeopardize Puget Sound Chinook, relies on the
expectation that the impact of PFMC fisheries on Puget Sound Chinook has been and will continue
to remain low. "