JG your post is 1000% USDA BS. First the QIN ( or Chehalis tribe ) had zero and I mean zero to do with the Chinook season for non treaty it was rules on the state side with a glitch in the GHMP the agency and Commission have refused to address. ( it is called 3/5 ) As for releasing we have jack fishing early on with release adult to protect the straggler Springers and most with half a brain just reach down and cut the leader and unless you get the gills good to go. Regardless our 5% impacts of the wild run size will be in release numbers as other than a few hatchery fish with Coho and Chinook it is a full C&R fishery pretty much similar to Steelhead. After September 16 you can keep clipped adults.

As for the fool you talked to ................... laws prevent the thinning of the gene pool on the human side of the species thing.