Elijah...

L99 and CM have it correct. Impacts to WILD chinook were capped at 20% during pre-season planning.... and in-season restrictions occurred to help insure that objective.

https://wdfw.wa.gov/commission/meetings/2018/02/feb_1618_b_wb_guidance.pdf

We currently lack a sufficiently selective fishery capable of fully exploiting hatchery surpluses WITHOUT exceeding the impact cap mandated by Policy.

BOTTOM LINE... the entrenched fisheries can't possibly access all of the available hatchery production without wiping out the wilds. Not because I said so, but because it IS so.
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