Tugalodan is right, the fish would have a better chance at recovery if we (all) stopped killing them. But, as Larry says, it is not simple to stop the killing. It is, without a doubt, the "other guy" who is killing too many. The gillnets sweep the rivers clean, the seiners gobble up everything in sight, the recs not only catch them, the snag them, the floss them, they play with their food.

So while the solution is elegantly simple, the politics, law, and culture of doing so is damn near impossible.