I don't believe the issues are the same regarding wild steelhead and wild chinook. There may be other legal issues involved considering chinook are considered a comercial fishery. there are also the issues of fin clipping and ESA stuff as mentioned above.

I am very much in support of adopting policies that protect and enhance our wild chinook runs, but we need to study the issue much more before we can make such a drastic decision as supporting a state wide mandatory release regulation.

In the mean time, I will continue to personally release wild chinook

SA