I attended the commission workshop in Olympia last week and heard WDF&W biologist Bob Gibbons present a long color-slide show in which he claimed that we have a large excess of wild steelhead on the penninsula and that they should be harvested. He further stated that increased harvest on wild fish is in keeping with the Wild Salmonoid Policy. He is using 16 year old escapement data and a 5 year old "angler survey" to justify the department position. It was disgusting. But don't give up, at least 4 commissioners know that catch and release is alive and well and that support for wild release is increasing. I believe that both the guide's assn. and the Forks chamber of commerce are on written record opposing increased wild kill.