FnP -
I think I'm getting what you are aiming for - thanks of having the courage to actually propose specific actions on which to base this "new management". So far I think we have:

1) Maximum numbers of wild fish - assume that marking all hatchery production the goal.

2) All fisheries wild salmon/steelhead release (apply to all species?). How about other species - halibut/ling cod etc?.

3) Gear would be limited to a single barbless hook with no bait or scents - selective gear.

I guess I assuming that to be successful that we would need to cap somehow the total fishing impacts on the wild stocks. In that light I would ask the following questions on what critieria the manager should use to accomplish this management shift.

1) Are you ultimately justed interested in having maximum numbers of wild fish in the fishery or on the spawning grounds?

2) Assuming that at least a partial goal is to have more wild fish on the spawning grounds. How much total fishing imapcts on wild stocks would you suggest while killing the hatchery fish and releasing the wild fish. In other words how much below MSA escapement are you willing to go to access the hatchery fish and have CnR on the wild stocks?

3) Assuming that we are to cap the fishing impacts on wild stocks would you regulate mixed stocks fisheries based on impacts on the weakest stock or an aggregate of the stocks?

4) In such an approach it is likely that fishing season would need reconstruction. Would you recommend that we build the new fishing structure from the rivers out adding additional fishing in more mixed stock areas if impacts are still available? or Would you build the fisheries from the outside in - opening the more inside fisheries and river fisheries only if additional impacts or available?

By the way the paradigm shift in management you are seeking has been and still is occurring. That kind of approach is very much what the co-managers had put forth in their fisheries management plan for the ESA listed chinook. That is limited directed fishing on the listed stocks with impacts from only the fishereies directed towards hatchery fish and/or other species. The goal has been to put fish on the spawning grounds to challenge the habitat capacity and productive while encouraging the restoration of the habitat. Fish are being put on the spawning grounds rather than killed in fisheries in the hope that society will make the needed changes to provide that additional habitat. While not exactly what you are shooting for I believe it is much closer to what you are proposing than the "old paradigm".

Again thanks for time to clarify for me what you are striving for.

Tight lines
S malma