Aunty -
Excellent idea - let's end any and all activities that are causing mortalities to the listed fish.

Mortalities on the smolt from going through the power turbines - just stop generating power.

Fish bing killed in irrigation diversions - stop irrigating.

Watersheds losing hydraulicaly maturity for forest activities - stop all logging.

ETC, etc.

Pretty drastic actions and I suspect that you and others would not support should measures (rather modify those activities to reduce mortality) except for fishing which needs to end.
How come?
Is it your position that use of some of a fish stock's productivity to support fishing isn't a legimate use of some of that productivity?

I'm sorry but some of us are not willing to throw our passion for fishing under the bus just to make things easier (cheaper) for those that want to use the stocks productivity for other uses. Rather I support a holistic approach to recovery efforts that stress all the Hs with each shouldering equitable and reasonable shares of the burden of those efforts.

If one looks at the harvest rates on wild steelhead in Puget Sound over the last 25 years it would difficult to say that they fishers (sport and tribal) have not step up to the plate. Equally if the other uses of those fish's productivity had contributed even a portion of that sacrifice to the cause the resource would be in much better shape.

Tight lines
Curt