I understand what you are saying Salmo and I respect your opinion on the matter. The proposed selective commercial gear use in the LCR will not benefit wild fish because, as it stands the ESA policies will still allow them to kill the same amount of wild fish no matter what gear type is used. I am not arguing against that point.

Although as I stated before I am not specifically talking about the LCR situation.

Are there not other fisheries that are regulated by hatchery harvest quotas that could stand to benefit from from non-treaty commercials using selective gear types?

I have no idea what limits the commercial fleet in say,..... the Chehalis. Would this type of gear use stand to benefit that watershed?