Good Grief RA3.

If you think steelhead are about to become extinct how does your conscience allow you to fish for them?

You make these extreme statements about the plight of wild steelhead and then act like CNR fishing has no impact. Sure CNR is easier on the fish than gillnets, but if you think they are in danger of extinction you should be screaming for a total closure of all fishing including CNR.


Wild salmonids are resilient fish. I don't think fishing pressure figures very prominently in the declines we have seen. Look the oldest watershed pictures you can find and then look at the same stretch of river now and it immediately becomes clear why salmonids are having some trouble. Salmonid habitat has changed so dramaticallly over the past 100 years, its a wonder the declines haven't been far worse.

As I've said before, overfishing is easy to fix, it's the habitat problem that is the tough one.