Steelhead are an inconvenience. You can't sell them so little value there. The people who do catch them are politically impotent. A world (fish manager's) without steelhead would be so much simpler and easier to live in.

Besides, most of the folks who catch them don't buy those big ocean-going or salt capable boats; they are dregs on the economy by not spending enough.

I agree with a friend who was deeply involved in Fraser sockeye and pink "What we need is a single benign despot". Lot of truth to that.