eyefish -

I think in your economic argument you are underestimating the impacts of the "common man".

In Salmo"s example we would expect the non-treaty recreational fishery to catch/handle 3,400 fish in a CnR fishery -0.80 x (4500-250)=3,400.

Even in the hay day of Puget Sound steelhead fishing the average catch/angler was less than 0.2/angler for the season. Use 0.20 fish/angler (a high value) we can expect the fishery to generate approximately 17,000 angler trips. That kind of effort could be expect to produce something like a million dollars (maybe more) for the local economies!

Do you think you could sell a 1,000 days for a $1,000/day to fish say the Skykomish? If so who would get the $$$? Somehow I think there is significant value in spreading that economic windfall among the local business.

Curt