Perhaps WDFW and Qin read the writing on the wall. With climate change, increasing population, a screw the environment attitude certainly with the Feds, and so on they see that there really isn't a viable long-term future for salmon in the PNW. Need to move to walleyes and stripers.

Semi-seriously, I wonder if they haven't essentially thrown in the towel long term and are just slowly warming the water for the crab to cook in.