Apparently many of you nate killing dimwits are short on your math skills. If all you conservationist type "people who keep 1 or 2 nates every few years" multiplied by the number of steelheaders in Washington (maybe 50,000 steelhead licenses?) that equates to only 50,000 to 100,000 nates taken every "few years". Now that the Olympic P. is the only legal place to take a nate right now, how long will it be until the OP has the same "healthy runs" that Puget Sound rivers were judged to have just a few years back. It case you haven't noticed you will not be fishing Puget Sound rivers starting tomorrow. Your thought that nates can be taken occasionally is totally self-serving and will end in the demise of the fishery as we know it if many share your short-sighted view.