TC,

The only commercial harvest that targets steelhead is tribal...though there are immediate and significant concerns with commercial bycatch of steelhead in the lower Columbia springer net fishery.

Their "selective" nets have selectively harvested tens of thousands of wild steelhead, and even with recovery boxes and tangle nets, it is estimated that up to 1600 or so wild steelhead were killed in last spring's fishery.

Many of those fish were upper and middle columbia listed fish.

Irresponsible, to say the least, especially considering the small amount of money at stake for the commercial springer fishery, compared to the money to be made by the recreational fishery.

Fish on...

Todd.