They could make it legal to use boats to "chase" runaway kings, even if fishing from boats was made illegal. Which brings up something that was brought to my attention in BC this year. I was told by another non-resident that using a boat to "chase down" runaway steelhead was illegal due to the fact fishing from boats is illegal on one of the streams we were fishing. I haven't seen anywhere in the regs where this is specifically designated as illegal activity.

Ian Forbes, one of BC's most prolific writers on the subject of steelhead wrote this piece about the very river we were fishing:

Logging roads follow most of the ******* and its tributaries. Much of the river can be drifted in a raft with little danger other than a few sweepers. Boats are not used to fish out of, but are helpful to access more water, and to follow runaway steelhead. There is more than 60 kilometers of river, but don't attempt to drift more that 10 kilometers per day and still expect to have time to fish.

I would think someone of his stature would have credibility on this subject or the piece above that that is widely available on the internet would have been edited by now.