Well said. Further, if you fish on maturing fish you get the largest fish, you use less fuel to chase them.

Most importantly, if (for example) essentially all of the harvest of Grays Harbor salmonids occurred inside the harbor, I'll bet that even the politicians would have an interest in good land-use decisions because their voters were directly affected by their decisions. You couldn't blame the Alaskans, Canadians, or the other boogiemen because the returns would be strongly controlled by what haqppened in the Harbor.

Never will happen because the local politicians (city, county, state, tribal) won't want to be put into the position where they are directly accountable and responsible for the results of their decisions.