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Originally posted by JJ:
It is our belief that science based management should prevail, not emotional idealism.
The science is clear. Wild steelhead are in significant decline. Even in river where our "scientists" have reduced escapement goals, we are still not reaching those goals. The Wild Steelhead Coalition has complied very compelling evidence based upon WDFW’s data that shoe three of the four rivers in the area affected by the moratorium are not reaching even the reduced escapement goals.

I fail to understand how any sportfishing organization can call for increased kill on rivers that are not meeting escapment!

It is not elitist to advocate reducing the kill on stocks that are not reaching escapement. The department should have done this years ago but lacked the guts to take the heat.
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