Kristine Harder and Terrance Pardee are correct in asserting that trawlers, gillnets, and fisheries mismanagement in general severely affect numbers of spawning king salmon. However, they miss the key point: daily ADF&G surveys from 1991 to the present indicate healthy and slightly increasing returns to the unlogged and unroaded Tahini River, and drastic declines to the heavily logged and roaded Kelsall. Fishing methods, climate, or other factors should impact fish from both rivers similarly.
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