BTW: If you think that the "WDFW" is not a rule making body go lookup the RCW's that are in the letter at the top of the page. The way "I" read the RCWs there is no question that the WDFW/Commision were well within their power to put the "Moratorium" in place.

I also did a little bit of checking to see how many people were licensed to fish for steelhead in Washington this year. It is roughly 540,000 according to their online database. So if we take 1% of those, and each of them catch and kill 5 fish we no longer have a run on the Hoh at all! Is that scary enough for you? Well that is what we are looking at without the wild fish closure.

IMHO what we really should do is make it so that NO ONE can fish for at LEAST 3 life cycles if we want any chance of saving our fish. Do I want to do that? NO WAY! But I would certainly do that if it meant that my grand kids would actually have a chance to fish for reasonable numbers of fish.

BTW: IMHO, "Escapement Goals" are simply a scientists estimate of how many fish are required to spawn to keep a certain number of fish returning each year. They IN NO WAY are what it takes to keep a fishery healthy!

2 weeks ago my son floated the Snoqualmie from Fall City to Neil Rd. He said he was able to see 10 fish in that section of river. A healthy river would probably have 10 fish in each hole!