It's not a big step in the right direction, it's just another baby step going around in a circle. It's a cop out plain and simple. Letting a handful of fish survive will not save a run. There are too many other factors being completely ignored. Like I said above, all this does is allow the state to say, "We really do care about wild steelhead, really. Look what we did to fix the problem!" You can't leave politics out because that's all this is. As the runs continue to decline, because lets face, it, this won't stop that trend, what will the next set of restrictions be? And the next after those? I don't even fish the rivers affected by this change. This ruling doesn't affect me at all personally. I just see what's really going on. The Green is a perfect example. First they went to C&R only, then they closed it mid April, then they closed it mid March now it's being closed mid February. What's next? Mid January? C&R only didn't work. Same is true for countless other systems.