boater,

You can define the words any way you want, if that's what you'd like to do, but in fisheries management, some words have meanings, and they don't always agree with yours.

harvest fishery = a fishery where fish are bonked and taken home

harvest = bonk

By definition, a CnR season, or a hatchery season under WSR, is not a wild steelhead harvest fishery.

There are incidental mortalities on wild fish associated with CnR or WSR, but it is not harvest. It is incidental mortality.

You can shuffle the words around all you want, but these are precise terms that mean something in fisheries management...you can't just interchange them to make your point.

If your point is that WSR and CnR have incidental impacts, then point taken...I've yet to hear a single person dispute that.

Is a dead fish dead? Yes. Does the fish really care how it died? No.

That still does not make incidental mortality into harvest.

Fish on...

Todd
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