You also can't (mis)manage the Chinook in a vacuum. They need the other species, and they need the Chinook.

Right now, while we have seen pinks coastwide are booming. That seems know knock down Chinook. And, while more pinks have been a boon for coho and steelhead in FW the pinks seem to outcompete the coho in the salt chuck.

So, if we jack up (say) pink and chum, because they are low value fish, 10-20x (which is what they need) but keep the coho and Chinook low we may exacerbate problems out in the Big Blue. Couple that fishing the [Bleeeeep!] out of everything else that might be eaten by growing salmon we get a really unbalanced system out there.

For ease of calculating an ecologically based escapement goal aim for at least 1 kg of spawner per square metre of stream as measured at summer low flow. Right now, 2 seems to the inflection point where benefits really fall off. They don't go negative but rise slower. Plus, it looks like a stream may have an instantaneous capacity of about 2 but can cumulatively take 8-10 if the spawning times are spread out over 5 or 6 months.