Okay, at the risk of opening up old wounds, can someone please tell me the difference between a wild steelhead and a wild salmon when it comes to the reasons for release? I recognize that the salmon can not come back to spawn again, however, isn't the genetic cargo that the wild salmon carries just as valuable as the steelheads? In this state, up until the Dept. of Fishing and the Dept. of Game were unified, the salmon was considered a food fish, steelhead were a game fish. In my mind, we still operate under that split and I believe the next phase in our (sports fishermen) development as stewards of the resource is to apply all of the good reasons for Wild Steelhead Release to Wild Salmon. I'm off to Cabo for a few days, may not be able to see or respond, but this is an important issue in my book. What are your thoughts?
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