Originally Posted By: Carcassman
That said, the only numbers that can be used for management are defensible ones that everybody agrees to. The state and tribes have agreed as to what they will use and how they will collect/develop/collate/estimate. They are what they are.


Thank you, CM. That is all that I am getting at. (I too, worked with catch data in my career, and heard the same or at least similar stories.)