Just because steelhead are not being harvested does not mean that harvest is not what is clobbering steelhead. If you want a lot of wild steelhead in the rivers, then lay off the coho.

Those who say harvest is not the problem look at harvest on a species by species, stock by stock basis. Overharvest is when too many fish are removed from the ecosystem.

It may be that on some sywstems it is overharvesty of herring, or some other baitfish, that is holding some other stocfk down. It is a system out there, not a collection of independent operators.