They get 4-6 bucks a pound for the eggs, and literally can't give the fish away, even to the food banks, because the food banks lack cold storage.

I talked with WDFW and the Point-no-point enforcement and this, unfortunately, is perfectly legal. It makes me sick that they harvest the fish, but only utilize the eggs. Shoot, I would feel a bit better if they figured out a way to make it into catfood or dogfood.

Goose makes some valid points about the nutrients, but I would rather see them forced to truck the fish upstream a few miles and then dump them in the river. At least then the kings and silvers would benefit from the nutrients.