Met'lheadMatt,

That's the point. Harvest managers believe they aren't settling for the bottom of the barrel. They're managing for maximum harvest, not maximum run size, or maximum escapement, or maximum recreation. The largest number of dead fish, year in and year out, that's their management goal. And it's now vested in the federal court system in WA state waters where treaty tribes fish. And by their yardstick, management is very successful, except for pink salmon runs, where the runs have become more numerous than what the commercial fish buyers will purchase. = Management failure, because of so many salmon that weren't harvested.

Sg