what concerns me about these kind of issues is that they could become permanant. i think the current type of rule we have now(e.g. WSR unless noted) works alright, we just have to figure out which fisheries can support harvest, we just need a better way of determining these areas.

what i would like to see are "test rule changes", where a regulation is put into effect for a period of say, 10 years, just to see how it would work. if some day the wild steelies return like they're chums, reopen the meat fishery on them. i was around to witness the slaughterhouse on the nisqually in the late 80s, and really doubt that could happen today. i mean, let's get this straight, the department of fisheries actually _raised_ the limit on wild fish after the fishery became popular and people wanted more! today it would have been the opposite, and who knows, if the run was managed with a little intelligence, maybe the fishery would still be there.