Salmo G.

With all due respect I do not agree with you on your assessment of our steelhead situation. I am not as up to date in Puget Sound issues, but I'm really aware of the O.P. situation. For one thing, we need many more spawners in our good habitat - which the Queets and Quinault has some of the best in the world- to provide in stream nutrients for juvenile fish to thrive. There is an ecological cycle to our streams that has been interrupted by diminishing returns of salmonids that when they spawn and die the entire ecosystem thrives, and not just steelhead. There are other mysterious factors involving the decline of our steelhead, but over harvest of weak stocks is the most egregious, and fixable solution right now.