Terminal fisheries solve the open ocean mixed stock fishery problem, but cause issues when strong stocks on a given system have overlapping run timing with weak stocks. In particular, salmon commercial fisheries tend to hammer summer run steelhead. In BC, interior Fraser steelhead are on the brink of extinction and have been recommended for listing in the Canadian version of ESA. However, the BC and Canadian governments ignore the recommendations because they're going down the path of letting First Nations have total control of all fishing as a "reconciliation" measure. Listing steelhead would limit or stop the tribes' in-river sockeye gillnetting, so they refuse to do it. Similar story on the Dean where chum fisheries have been partly responsible for collapsing that amazing run of steelhead. Steelhead numbers on the Skeena are way down too. And salmon netting on WA coastal rivers has impacted our summer and early returning winter steelhead as well. A retired fisheries biologist up in BC runs a great blog documenting their issues, steelheadvoices.com . Until something changes with BC's management, I'd limit steelhead trips to the states unless you're OK with spending a huge amount of money to fish dying rivers.