Does BS stand for "Best Science"? That's the only kind the WDFW uses nowadays. No doubt, the regulation you're concerned about is based in BS. The tangle-net fiasco, sports season emergency closures on the heels of massive commercial harvests, and the decade long closure of the Cedar River to all fishing are other examples of decisions influenced by BS.

Saturday, I took a drive up the N. Fork of the Toutle. It looked like choc. milk, or the Puyallup, but there were fishermen lined up all along its banks. The river still looks barren and sterile, as it did when I last visited it a couple of years after the blast. Could all of these chinook carcasses be needed to increase nutrients in that stretch of river?