Isn't the one-fish limit enough of a limitation on our impact? If we have reached a point where we have no choice but to give up time on the water (when did that become a reality?), I suppose I like your line of thinking (longer season with some days closed). Of course, it only takes 2 days for a weather system to move huge components of the run upstream, so there's always the chance the two days we're closed in a given week are the days the fish move.

I'd personally rather we didn't have to pick a poison and we could just be honest about where the impacts of a day of fishing are most significant and limit those fisheries instead. I like fishing in the ocean, too, but all things considered (mixed stocks, poor incidental encounter survival, etc.), a day of sport fishing in the ocean definitely has more overall impact than any day of in-river fishing. You get a LOT more bang for your conservation buck by limiting ocean fisheries instead. Just sayin'....