The bottom line is we need more wild fish to reach the spawning grounds. I would love to know how many anadromous fish populations have actually met escapement goals for the last year, let alone the last decade. How anyone can justify fishing until escapement goals are met are beyond my comprehension. I-696 will remove one sector from the harvest management table. This should remove a large portion of politics which will hopefully be replaced by science and put those fish back on the spawning beds rather than a few bucks in a guys pocket or filler for the pet food company or caviar for the Japanese or lost and forgotten in sombody's freezer or ground up for fertilizer or...