Originally Posted By: Carcassman
Bob Hooten, a BC ateelhead manager, pushed hard and successfully to get C&R fisheries for BC steelhead. His comment to me, after seeing what happened in the 20+ years they were in place, is that they did NOT help the populations. Why, he doesn't know. But the runs did not increase.

So, while C&R certainly works for resident trout, sea-run cutthroat, and native char it does not seem to have helped steelhead.


On the other side, C&R certainly didn't harm the runs either. I would think tracking the numbers in his region would be quite the task with constant commercial gillnet fisheries coinciding with the steelhead run. The Tyee test fishery is only a "best guess" indicator and probably kills more steelhead than the C&R fishery by a long shot.
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