Can't say if the tribes would stop fishing or not if sportsmen had to release all wild fish year round. I dought it, but that would give us far more moral ground to bitch about it.
As far as F&G guys go they are alright. But the fact of the matter is that F&G management need money to run the program. And if they made all Wild fish C&R year round they would have the silent majority of Steelhead fishermen in thier faces and a whole lot of employee and program cuts from that silent majority not buying liscenes anymore.
For most of us on this site we are C&R fishermen and women, but take a real good look around at all the folks you see on the river that plunker themselves down in some eddy, have the kids running all over the place and are just as clueless about what's going on with our wild fish as the city slicker that buys wild fish in the market.
It sure gets real depressing out there, but one day we will get it right.