Originally Posted By: Carcassman
If those fish stocks are in such a precarious position why should anyone be allowed to do anything with them? What elevates take by fishermen to a higher plane?


Good question. Some streams are closed for various periods (such as the Stilly just recently and early last autumn) and the Skagit has been closed for a while to all steelhead fishing (at least I think so; I don't fish there myself). And on the Peninsula, only one wild fish can be kept during the winter steelhead season. So fishermen have had their take limited to a very real extent. Can anyone forecast anything but more restrictions on the Puget Sound rivers and the Peninsula in the future? It seems doubtful.


Edited by smelt (01/26/14 10:36 PM)