Originally Posted By: Salmo g.
As you can see and already know, fish management is as much or more about what people want than it is about what fish need.

That's it in a nutshell, unfortunately. Let's let everybody have their wack at 'em before we know how many are coming back and worry about the welfare of the fish later.....sad.

Jerry, the only comparison I was drawing between the two fisheries is the fish managers ability to know exactly how many fish are returning to the system.

Ike