MC, you're right. But some will argue that until we as sportsmen stop killing wild steelhead the netting won't stop. If the sportsmen demanded that the state prohibit killing of wild fish then we could argue against allowing the netting of those same fish.

As long as there are sportsmen out there that vocally support killing wild steelhead, the netters will point to that and use it as validation that what they do is fine.

The biggest problem to issues like this is getting the sportsmen to come to a common consensus.