I have a difficult time comprehending the claim that if one is not legally allowed to harvest a wild steelhead then no one would show up to support the economy and doom and gloom for all nearby communities. Really then, all you have to do is pull your head out of the tiny little world that is Washington and notice that communities that have semi to healthy populations of wild steelhead AND are strictly catch and release support big tourism dollars! For example, the Skeena region's sports fishery accounts for 52.8 million dollars annually. A majority of this revenue comes from you guessed it...........................

















































CATCH & RELEASE OF WILD STEELHEAD! Maybe it's time to wake up! By the way, It's been closed to catch and keep for nearly 30 years and people come from all over the world to spend their hard earned foreign money.