CFM,

The attitude that "fish and game are there for us to harvest" and that "fishing opportunity means harvest" is what got us here in the first place.

Fishing restrictions, and harvest restrictions, exist on almost all fish and game, and there are numerous reasons, almost none of which include the ESA and the feds.

Did you make this same argument when the state went from 3 steelhead limit daily to 2 daily back in the 70's? I bet you did.

How about when the seasons got shorter and shorter to protect fish?

How about when steelhead were officially taken off of the directed non-tribal commercial harvest list? Commercials have just as much "right" as you do to harvest those fish. Were you arguing on their behalf?

Fish on...

Todd