Dave is correct about seasons being set for conservation. Goal was to reduce TOTAL exploitation on the pre-harvest Grays Harbor coho abundance down to 20%.... that's all the way from Canada to home waters.

We were close on paper. We got it down to 20.7%... and the Canadians did not object. Post season analysis will tell us how well we actually succeeded.

As others have said, the US structured its fisheries to take our share early, and a significant portion of it outside the basin.

Expected tribal catch thru the winter months is accounted for in calculating the pre-season exploitation rate.

As to the encounter rates with gillnets steel vs coho.....

There are exceedingly few early-timed wild winter steelhead. There are no longer any intentional hatchery releases of early-timed winter steelhead in the basin. All the 2018 netting that occurs after Thanksgiving for winter steelhead is heavily weighted toward "by catch" coho.

As Rivrguy likes to say, "It is what it is."