The Quinault started there brood stock program by catching Steelhead alive in a gill net strung from shore out on Lake Quinault. I'm not sure when they started the program but back in 2014 I was fortunate to hang out for an afternoon and witness how it worked. My nephew was friends with one of the members. During daylight hours the net would be strung out from shore and an employed tribal watchman would keep an I on the floats of the net from the 2nd story window from the holding facility building. Floats bob, rush down to boat and race out. Boat had 55g drum with water. Pull and untangle fish. If 15# or bigger, dump in barrel. If smaller release back into the lake. Then race back to shore and dump in a bag and run it up to the holding tank and dump in. Crude but effective. Like I said they only kept big fish to breed. The holding tank had 15-20 in it at that time. Many of the fish from that breeding returned big. Many pushn 20# and over. The return numbers were really good up until around 2017-18. Then numbers dropped significantly on par with what is going on everywhere now. Hence the fishing restrictions implemented the last few years. Don't know there operations now but one things for sure. Big fish breed big fish!