GBL,

They have had, and still have, catch and kill in Oregon and California, but that is irrelevant.

Coastal streams...west side of Vancouver Island, Washington coastal, Oregon, and N. California, are not suffering the same marine conditions bottleneck as Puget Sound and Georgia Straits fish...that's the theory, anyway. I'd sure like to find out what the story is with that.

Maybe this is the fifth, sixth...twentieth...time in this thread, but here it goes for the last time:

It is not relevant what may have caused past problems. There is no "uncontrolled netting" going on in Puget Sound streams...as a matter of fact, when it comes to wild steelhead, there is virtually NONE.

It is not a problem right now.

If it were, wouldn't the OP streams, where there are 4 to 7 netting days per week right through April, be the ones in the biggest trouble.

They're not.

Why not?

Well, habitat, for one...all of the streams come out of the ONP.

Two, they are on the coastal marine paradigm...just like the coastal Oregon and California fish are.

If you wish to be part of the solution, you're going have to accept some irrefutable facts...especially that there is virtually no harvest going on with wild steelhead in Puget Sound...or you will do what you have likely been doing for the past forty years; banging your head against a wall, and the wrong wall at that.

How effective has that been for ya?

Fish on...

Todd