"Maybe without WSR regs the runs would be extinct and not depressed?"

Maybe.... That's why it makes a good management tool, but a statewide blanket policy? Maybe if some people didn't feel the need to target those depressed stocks, then they wouldn't be depressed. Maybe, Maybe, Maybe. One thing I know for sure is that I am a fisherman and just because I may like to take home fish and eat it does not make me any less of a fisherman than you Dan.