JG...you have not chosen the "least" controversial method in the sports fishing community. Probably the most popular in indian country. The WSR moratorium has been plenty controversial to say the least.

What do you and Todd surmise would be the effect in the short and long term of confiscating all the gill nets that would be set anywhere in the migration path of wild steelhead? If WSR is such a great idea then the rivers must be in such dire straits that certainly WDFW can shut down the tribal nets based on the emergency.

I submit that would yield the most dramatic results for wild steelhead of anything you could ever even contemplate. Just how dramatic do you think that "controversial" plan would be:?

How about an all out cessation of fishing in all rivers during the migration of wild steelhead? That would no doubt yield a big shot in the arm to wild steelhead survival. That would have to include the Columbia River. No CNR, no fly fishing. No fishing period.

How about removing all the dams on all of our rivers? Deporting 50 % of the people in the state immediately? Shut down all the hatcheries in the next 6 months. No exceptions. Ban boats from all rivers during fish migration.