I'd be in favor of such a class. I had to take a test to hunt geese in Grays Harbor county (dusky canada goose issue). You have to take a class, if born after 1972, just to go hunting in Washington.

The testing process seems almost necessary especially considering all of the "endangered" runs out there. Maybe testing limited to only salmon and steelhead, or testing required to fish on a particular river with a sensitive fishery.

This would certainly help with fish ID. I can't begin to tell you how many people I taught how to ID pnks this year up at Sekiu. I talked with at least 50 people who weren't sure what a silver or pink looked like, and because they didn't want to get a ticket, they didn't keep anything with an adipose fin.

A pain, yes. Achievable, yes.

Andy