WFL,

I don't mean to single you out, but I will out of necessity at this point.

That quoted statement is flat out false.

It's one of the thirty or so statements made in the last six weeks where folks say stuff about the WSC without doing any research into the WSC.

Go to the WSC website, read the white paper titled "The Biological and Economic Benefits of Wild Steelhead Release"...there is an entire chapter in there written by an economist for a Fortune 500 company regarding the economics of WSR and CnR fisheries, using real world examples from many places around the world.

None of the "economic doomsday" folks I've heard have yet shown me the loss of businesses due to WSR...but they have shown many examples of the economic bust due to closures. WSR is intended to put off closures...to keep fishing, while reducing the impacts we have on the fish, and keeping up the good economic impacts that having a fishery brings to communities, especially those who don't have much else to lean on.

Fish on...

Todd