Where there is a reasonable habitat base, I think it would be possible to support a reasonable (now there's a loaded word) terminal recreational fishery on purely wild stock. If commercial harvest were eliminated-coastwide as has been done for waterfowl, gamebirds, game mammals, resident trout, bass- then we could probably have some reasonable fisheries.

There is simply too much "demand" and the easy way out is hatcheries.

For the dammed streams, like the Cowlitz, you could run hatcheries for mitigation; again with terminal (river) harvest.

One of the tradeoffs, since fish is supposed to be so good for us to eat, is that there will need to be commercial fish growing like there is commercial cattle, pig, and chicken.