I can't help thinking about one step farther down the road. This is another option/angle to approach within your letters. Somewhere it is written that you cannot spawn fish out of another river system to another. If this were possible and we could start spawning 5 year old fish again in the Puget Sound, could you imagine the positive impacts that would have on the economy? We had Curt Kraemer (WDFW Biologist) come to one of our PSA meetings. He told us that it takes 5 year old fish spawn 5 year old fish(40-50#). These 2-3 year old fish we have now are not going to spawn big kings (5 year olds). The nets they used to use many years ago were 9 1/2" mesh. I bet it is half that size now. Get the nets out and start rebuilding stocks. I am sure there are a few 5 year olds left in every river system somewhere. That would really fire off the economy. I bet you would not see as many full colored BC fishing brochures in our region as there would be no reason to fish elsewhere. Look at what the Columbia River fish have done for the Ocean towns this year. At Neah Bay this year, we had a huge group of people that spent 1-2 weeks out there. I spent $2300 myself with my wife and son, just on the one trip. I spent almost everyweekend after that at Westport. This was a major 5 year old return for the Coastal fish. Think if we could get the nets out and return these huge kings to the Sound. I bet the recreational dollars spent documented last year would be ten times that. We would once again have people from all over the US bringing their sportfishing dollars back into Washington-like it was 30 years ago. Just an other perspective to include. Sportsfishing is a way of life for us and is also valuable to our economy.