I've never met an anadromous stock that wasn't over fished.

The CR was noted in history that you could walk on the backs of fish to get to the other side of the river. And of course over fishing reduced the fish stocks tremendously before the dams and forests and urban sprawl occurred, that they then built hatcheries before 1900.

So you're saying that if we take all the dams out, replant and regrow the forest, make the rivers pristine, rebuild estuaries, no mining, reverse urban sprawl, etc. then we would have

1) If that could ever be done?
2)and what would be the cost?
3) More steelhead? if just did the remodeling of the environment?
4)or if man quite over harvesting fish all together in the ocean? and/or the river?

I don't buy over harvest isn't a big portion of the problem.