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Not sure that I'm following your logic that the recs couldn't catch the them. The first year of the new policy was 2015 and that is the most recent year that I can find total catch information.

That year the rec. catch in MA 2-1 was 10,048 Chinook and the freshwater catch was 6,109 for a total of 16,656 recreational catch in the terminal area. The same year the commercial landings was 4,858. It seems to me that the recreational fleet did a pretty creditable job of catching the available hatchery fish will limiting the impacts on the wild stocks of concern; exactly what the plan called for.

Could it be that the plan worked to well?

Of course the long term concern is that moving the reducing the Willapa hatchery production and moving that production to the Naselle will assure that the marine rec fleet will be less successful and there will be an increase needed for increased commercial landings- hardily fitting with the state goal of providing a priority to the recreational fishery.

At least at a distance it looks like even when WDFW is successful they find ways to mess things up.

Curt