If you look through the regulation proposals, there actually is a proposal to make statewide mandatory release of wild steelhead, no exceptions a regulation.

Each river that is now exempt from the statewide wild steelhead release has a regulation proposed that would eliminate that excemption. IMHO, it was written that way to make it more difficult to get what we (the people) want.

BUT, I think it may allow us to chip away even more. To think that this year would be any differant from 2001 is ridicilous, as in, I do not think a complete statewide wild steelhead release with no excemptions proposal would pass. On the other hand, it is much easier to get the excemption removed on smaller streams such as Goodman Creek and on rivers that have had poor runs in the past few years (The Queets System).

We may not get every river this year but we may narrow it down to just a few and in two years, we can tackle those!