Todd -
I do not think that the co-managers signed on to the wild salmonid policy. That is the problem with most of those management plans (the recent steelhead plan being the latest) they are just agency plans to have a meaningful hope of being effective they need to agreed to by both the co-managers and the rest of State governoment.

Regarding the current PS steelhead season still in place in spite of the ESA listing. It was my understand as expressed by the feds at the November WSC meenting that everyone was basically marking time until the Feds figured out what the rules will be with the lsitings. At that time they were guessing that they would have those in place this February or March at which time the State would know what requirements it would have to meet to qualify for a take permit.

Is that a comspiracy? I'll leave that to those who worry about such things.

Tight lines
Curt