Yeah I hate waste and there is no reason for it. We will never see 75 years ago again here. Be pretty cool to have a year like this every couple of cycles though. Which, after coming off the "poor" year of 2 years ago seems real likely. Seems like it hasnt gotten worse in the 20 years I have fished it is all. Ups and downs, sure.
Town I was in in AK had a creek that ran all of 100 yards to an unpassable falls. It got a real decent run of pinks and a chum every now and then.
Are we going to be conservation minded fishermen, get a good run going, then complain that a kid keeps a big fish? Seems a little overboard. Though I must say that, record or not, I would NEVER have kept either one of those skanky lookin fish or have even fished for them.