Yes Todd,

Yes, you'd make each tag river specific or the system wouldn't work.

This is how they manage Lake sturgeon in the Wisconsin and it seems to be pretty effective. They use the same metal tags for sturgeon as for deer.

They also have tough penalties against poachers. Something like $3000 fine minimum and confiscation of gear. I think these penatlies are actually stiffer than those that face big game poachers.

I'd say that tags would have to be given on a lottery basis if the demand exceeded the allowances for a given year. One a good year you might allow multiple tags per person depending on demand.

Die-hard wild steelhead elitists could even try to get tags and not use them.

This sort of managment scheme seems a bit over the top to me, but I think its has more fairness and more controlled impacts than the current WSR blanket reg.