YAY! Glad to hear they weren't listed. What action? Protect them from extinction? I highly doubt that. Even so, who is losing out if fishing is all closed. Us recs? Half of the rivers in WA are already closed for winter steel. If there are a couple, or a thousand, what are they worth if you can't even get an opportunity to C&R them. If you really think about it, what ecological purpose do Steelhead serve? You rarely can observe them in there environment, you can't hear them or smell them. Apart from Salmon, there numbers are far less to be an important food source for humankind, or in the wild other than for pinnipeds? As far as I see it, the only real purpose is to have them, is for human recreational enjoyment. With all the angling selective restriction rules that exist for Boldt case area Steelhead, I see no reason not to have all rivers open year round for at least C&R. 10% C&R mortality is way over stated. Especially with no bait and barbless hooks. I say Boldt case because it's the tribes only, that have restricted Puget Sound and coastal Steelhead season's. Rivers in BC, Oregon and various Columbia R. tribs don't have the same restrictions because they are non treaty rivers. Currently, if the tribes can't or don't get to net, we don't get to fish, period! Steelhead is a game fish, not a food fish. I think the tribes think a fish is a fish. Steelhead cannot tolerate commercial netting/fisheries of any kind, which many are caught incidentally in other commercial fisheries. Those fisheries seem to get a pass on their impacts. Us recs pay the price. IMO all rivers could tolerate at least C&R fisheries. My 2cents.