Well, I certainly noticed how crappy the fishing was for me up there this summer - actually made me real glad that I live where I do, and yes, even for WDFW who does seem to have learned how to manage the fisheries to the point that things have actually gotten better the last few years. And Canada appears to be about where we were in the 70's as far as habitat destruction, by logging, pollution, development, etc., goes, so I don't see things improving up there very soon.

I have not read the study, but probably don't need to - it is completely obvious to me that unrestricted recreational fishing is fully capable of overexploiting the resource. They have a year round 2 king limit up there in the saltchuck, and they obviously are overexploiting them. This does bring up a point by comparing recreational to commercial fishing - yes, we can catch them all and then some, and return 15 to 75 times as much money per pound to the economy than commercial fishermen, depending upon which study you read, so why is WDFW giving fish to the commercials at such a horrendous loss, and I mean like 20 cents per pound for Willapa silvers?