Not to start a brawl but to understand the mitigation fish. How was the number arrived at? One lump sum on the Columbia or added to dam by dam? Same with the tribs? The Cowlitz as and example. The mitigation is for the loss of natural production I assume but to where? The Cowlitz or harvest as it applies to the Columbia as a big picture thing.

This is something I don't grasp as if you have XXX mitigation on the Cowlitz for the loss of production then one would assume the fish should make it into the river at the minimum of what is required for natural run production. To put it another way spawner escapement.

Now what on earth am I missing? Is there something that would allow all available harvest take place before the fish make the stream they are mitigation for?