Adding my two cents

Though I prefer that this fish would have been released and my take is that the bleeding from the gills was a direct result from the fish being lifted by the gill plates ( that is a lot of weight to support). I can only bitch a little about it because the angler was with in his legal rights to harvest that fish. What really bothers me is the fact that if we remove the right to harvest native steelhead from that river by the sport angler, the sport portion of the "harvestable" fish by treaty rights would be harvestable by the native americans ( and would be). So even if we choose to do what we (sport angler) can the boost the native steelhead by mandating release, we and the fish are still screwed.