I certainly enjoy all of the brainstorming on different ideas to help save some of these wild fish, but I cannot help go back to the thought of simple supply and demand. If no one can legally buy or distibute steelhead, then what will they do with them. Most likely they will throw them up on the bank as I have seen them do on the Skagit, but after years of this, I am sure they would tire. Still the fish would be killed by the nets, but possibly over time, their efforts would become fruitless.
Save our wild steelhead