ME ME ME ME! Good grief! Most sport fisheries take place at locations upstream of tribal fisheries! Any fish released by a sport fisher is extremely likely to make it to the spawning bed alive! Therefore every fish released increases the productivity of the stream meaning more fish for the future. The fundemental problem is with WDFW because there is not one stream in Washington state that has a harvestable surplus of wild steelhead. 50% of 0=0. We need to get WDFW to acknowledge the face that the rivers can handle more fish. I'd say we need to drop harvest to 10% of the so called surplus combimed. 5% for sport
5% for tribal. but even thats a stupid management strategy because there is no harvestable surplus! Anyone who intentionally kills a wild steelhead by their own actions demonstrated their greed. There are 10's of thousands of hatchery fish to bonk. Noone for any reason needs or should want to kill wild fish.