Although I have never fished in the PNW, I have plenty of freinds who fish out by you guys. The big thing here is bedripping fish off of redds in spring for steel, and fall for kings, cohos, and browns. I shake my head at this pratice especially in rivers with populations of wild fish. I don't know if this is the same case in the PNW but the fish here are really treated as a food resource only. I took a trip to Lake Huron in Nov, most of the streams are supported by natural repo, but just about 100% of the fish are all kept, the word conservation doesn't exist in many peoples heads there. Other than keeping fish and fishing redds, another big problem is about 95% of the people here don't rotate though holes and give other people a chance to get a shot at some fish, this results in many arguments. There is a hand full of guys around the Great Lakes that care about our resources and are hardcore steelhead and salmon, but they are few and far between. I don't know if this helps but these are a few things that I have heard doesn't exist as much in the PNW as it does here.