Salmo,
I don't know what the answer is but it would sure be nice to fish for steelhead in there again. I talked with a fish counter one day on the Snoqualmie about re-opening the Cedar. He suggested or was already being talked about, a lottery type system where you had to be drawn to get a license to fish the river. This would limit the amount of pressure. It is such a small river that something had to be done to limit the amount of people. Don't know how that would really work, maybe a system like drawing a tag for deer or elk with points system. I k ow this doesn't answer the endangered salmon species, unless the season for steelhead was well beyond the salmon run. All I know is when it re-opens, I'll be first in line to fish it.