Glad you asked that question....I thought maybe you looked at the wrong numbers BUT YOU ARE CORRECT...

I went to the WDFW web site, they have the plantings listed there from the year 2002 - 2015...I won't give the actual counts by year but you'll understand what I'm doing:

Year 2015 ---- plant was 88,740, add 2 years and that's when they are back.

Year 2008 --- plant was 104,540
Year 2009 --- plant was 140,380
Year 2003 --- plant was 141,500
Years 2014, 13, 12, 11,10, 7, 6, 5, 4, 2 were all in the 170,000+

I have a call into the hatchery, of course it went to voice mail....I'll post what I hear when I get the phone call....

I was not aware....and I live close....

Just so the readers understand......100 % of the meeting, in general, the topic is SALMON, how many, what species, and who gets what % of the total....QIN, NT, Marine Sports, and In River sport.

Steelhead are not talked about, at any North of Falcon meetings...

Thanks again for asking the question...

It will be a xhit year !!!!!!!