Sorry for the confusion about my post...didn't mean to get anybody too uptight!

My post above was meant only to refer to counting legal (hatchery fish of sufficient size to keep) against the quota, even if they are released.

If the quota is being controlled by a reported wild fish encounter rate, rather than a harvest rate (something I've never heard of in sportfishing due to the impossibility of getting much data at all, much less accurate data), then, of course, I would encourage everyone to accurately report everything caught.

If wild fish encounters were the limiting factor in a sport season, the seasons are usually set by a time limit with an estimated success rate, or a wild/hatchery fish ratio to make the count.

For example, if the allowable of encounter of wild fish is 1500 fish, and wild fish make up, say, 33% of the entire run, then wild fish encounters would be tallied by multiplying the harvested hatchery fish by .5 (ration of 2:1), not by counting the actual wild encounters. When 3000 hatchery fish have been harvested, then the quota for wild fish encounters has been met.

By the way, I had an e-mail forwarded to me from WDFW enforcement stating that "landed" means harvested, as I initially stated above.

Again, sorry for the confusion. I think my record here and elsewhere stands for itself on my views on conservation of wild fish stocks, so I'm not going to bother defending myself on that issue.

Fish on...

Todd.