I didn't realize that it was illegal to sell wild trout. I thought they still did this in the Great Lakes. Hawk?? I imagine laws get around this because steelhead are anadromous and considered another species of salmon. Some sales are curtailed, at least in this state because you need a permit to buy/sell. The bulk of the stuff goes to the mid-west; thats where the numbers are. If permit requirements were nation-wide, and given the alternatives, I think you would see wild steelhead sales dwindle everywhere.

The rockfish considered for ESA are Puget Sound copper, brown, and quillback rockfish. The fillets you see at Safeway are from coastal populations (Alaska to California depending upon the fishery). There hasn't been a significant commercial rockfish fishery in Puget Sound since the 1980s.