so where are you going to put all the boats that fish area 9,10,8-1,and 8-2?

I can not imagine what the lower Snohomish would look like with all those boats in there. the Stillaguamish is to small for most of them, and the Skagit is going to be filled with all the area 7 boats. terminal fisheries for Lake Washington are going to be a mess to figure out and the Green/ Duwamish dosn't want rec boats blocking the commercial shipping lower river so most likely no fishing below the Boeing field area... all those boats generate a huge amount of money for the state... I would bet most never apply for the road tax back on the gas they buy, that alone is millions of dollars you would be asking the state to be giving up.

Not to mention the fact that it could be argued that the Snohomish is a mixed stock fishery. that you would need to move all fishing above to the sky, Pilchuck, Sultan, Wallace,,,,, when is it a terminal fishery? when they hit the creek they spawn in?

what i see you advocating is all fishing to look like the Samish and Skokomish snagfests.... is that really how you want to fish all the time? not me! no thank you! some days its fine.... but some days I want to fish without the crowd.