This action may be a day late and a dollar short for PS wild steelhead. I'm not usually this pessimistic, but I find it difficult to rationalize how these fish can be anything other than "toast".

This should be a wake-up call to managers and politicians in the two remaining "healthy" ESU's.

A complete inventory and survey of existing habitat should be completed so we have an idea of where "ground zero" is. Without some benchmark for where we are and where we want to be, there is ZERO accountability for society and industry to exercise responsible development and/or resource extraction within these ecosystems.

Habitats should be critically evaluated for carrying capacity with the goal of managing steelhead populations so as to maximally challenge the available spawning and rearing habitat.

There should be a complete overhaul of harvest practices with an emphasis on maximal sustainable abundance rather than continuing to rely on a fatally flawed MSY model. All non-selective gear should be removed from the rivers... yeah that means the ****in' gillnets. The purposeful harvest of wild steelhead should be banned statewide. The sale of wild steelhead should be banned statewide with the stiffest penalties allowable by law.

Call it the fNp model for recovery... oh to be the state fish Czar for a day!

OK, time for my anti-delusional meds.