This idea of separate, different, and not equal forcasts is, unfortunately, not new.

I really do not understand why the the State can't challenge. I can understand won't, but not can't.

If they can't, they have just admitted (as if they really needed to) that there is no Co-Management.

And, a rec fishery in the Nisqually on chums decimating (which, actually, is reducing it 10%) the run is also mind-boggling. Again, I can understand concerns about steelhead by catch as that has been an issue for the 30+ years I know of but never chum.