Obsessed & reel truth,
It's good to see your point of view. Time has come for the State of Washington to implement C&R on all wild Steelhead. My hats off to the commission if this is true.
After years of being down on Native American netting of Wild Steelhead I've come to realize that State wide we sportsmen probably kill as many wild fish or close to it as the Natives kill. How can we get them to think differently if we sportsmen are killing so many fish state wide. There is hope that more tribes will pick up on the fish trap idea, (some are looking into it).
IF we could get sportsmen and Native Americans to stop the killing and the fish did not return in strong runs then identifying where the problems lay would be so much more easy to find.
One more note: Years ago in Montana many of the rivers went catch & release, there was a lot of yelling by many but soon after the yelling stoped and fishing became better than it had been for 30 years.