Salmo, they've been very clear in every single news release about the "experiment" from day one...the intent is to grant increased access to hatchery fish for the commercial fleet.

They don't even bother pretending otherwise, except for some very vague "may help" wild fish for some reason or another, usually by tying in the removal of about 5% of the hatchery fish off the spawning grounds, which outnumber the wild fish already by about 5:1...removal of a few more percent of them from the spawning ground won't do dick.

Whoever thinks the DFW's will say "Geez, you commercial guys have done so well at reducing your mortality per encounter, we've decided to reduce the allowable impacts (which is a fed issue, not a state issue), and give a goodly portion of your current impacts to the sporties so that they can continue to kill upwards of 10% of their wild fish encounters" is expressing so much naivete as to be laughable.

Fish on...

Todd