One last point. Not to be pessimistic, but . . .

I looked back at the P.S. Chinook Recovery plan. Back in about 2006, about $60 million a year (since ESA listing in 1999) was being spent on P.S. Chinook recovery, and there were pleas at the time to increase that amount.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but if the same annual amount was spent from 2006 to 2017, that equals over one billion dollars spent since listing on recovery of P.S. Chinook.

Yet, according to NOAA, the Tribes, and WDFW, the ESU as a whole, many of the populations in the ESU, and the habitat supporting the ESU continues to decline, in some cases significantly.

While I applaud Commissioners McIssac and Carpenter and the rest of the Commission for trying to find a solution that conserves the species while not resulting in significant cuts in sport fishing opportunity, I fear the mitigation measures listed in WDFW's press release are "too little to late" and that significant harvest cuts somewhere may be unavoidable.

Hope I'm wrong (it wouldn't be the first time).