Mortality rate is almost irrelevant, so far as the fish care, when the LCR spring Chinook fisheries are limited by overall mortality...the only thing changing mortality rates does is change the amount of hatchery fish you can harvest on the way to killing your share of the wild fish...

And as boater has pointed out above, if the commercials are going to get more hatchery fish by going "more selective"...well, that will negatively impact sportfishing with virtually no concommitant benefit to the wild fish.

Fish on...

Todd