Freespool, Blktailhunter,

For most of us, it's not about zero-kill. Few, if any, west coast wild steelhead populations have harvestable numbers of fish. Yes, those populations like all others would be better off with no human induced mortality whatever. But we love to fish. The social-ecological compromise we make is to limit mortality by fishing CNR. The intent is to conserve ecologically viable populations while continuing to extract significant social and economic benefits by fishing for them. In those cases where the populations are too small to sustain CNR, we favor and support closures to fishing. If the populations were healthy enough to support wild steelhead harvests, we could support that too, even if as individuals some would choose to release the fish anyway. (I release fish that are part of healthy populations routinely because I love to fish more than I care to eat them, depending on species, etc.)

Freespool, you can't know or decide what we can or can't worship. Just offering perspective and fact for you. And 10% is a high estimate of steelhead CNR mortality, for the record.

BTH, zero envy here or from most, and no hate either. Rather it's about this guy broadcasting his activity on a TV show. He's setting an example for others to be influenced by whether he realizes it or not. It would be difficult to successfully argue that there is any human or environmental benefit to killing a wild steelhead beyond ego stroking.

Sg