Silos. Nuclear-hardened silos that force you to consider only one thing. Seen it all through my career. When there were issues on the Nisqually between steelhead and chum, the WDG rep stated that his agency would only consider the needs of steelhead. All you all may have noticed that the big driver of all salmonid issues is "the ocean", which means that the Big Blue controls it all but in mysterious ways. So, we don't need to nibble on the "edges".

For whatever reason, we assume that "the habitat", whether it be the creek or the estuary, or ocean in no way constrains food resources. It may be too warm, or cold, or no LWD, too salty, and so on. But the food resources are unlimited. And, like the old hatchery/wild conflicts -a fish is a fish is a fish. So, a belly full of anchovy is equal nutritionally to a belly full of herring. It's not, but that is the way to believe.

At the end of the day, blaming the ocean absolves managers and the political leaders from making politically and economically difficult decisions. There is a ton of data that shows the massive AK pink program is damaging fish and wildlife resources in the whole western hemisphere. The pollack trawl fishery bycatch issues are the same. The managers list climate change as the only problem, so they don't need to change.