Originally Posted By: AuntyM
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I don't go along with the "all or nothing" mentality.


You're either committed to recovering those listed fish, or you're not. John Q. Public is not going to buy into the "cake and eat it too" theory. If people are still fishing while those wild fish are present, the public and many local governments aren't going to be inclined to take "recovery" efforts seriously and neither am I.


Just for clarification are you suggesting that the only open rivers for wild fish (OP, Skagit drainage, Kalama, Cow) aren't in a position where C&R should be enacted? Is your specific stance that unless a run is healthy enough for harvest that it shouldn't be fished? I'm not trying to pick a fight, just trying to understand the stance. At this point the PS steelhead are being listed and as far as I know the rivers are closed when most of the wild runs start coming through....