I'd Like to See STEP & ODFW set up Hatch Boxes on the gravel beds & use wild gene pool to grow the "native" numbers so that limited harvest with slot lengths wouldn't create this sort of impassioned debate. Restoration of the riparian zones with the large cedar & hemlocks is also a critical need to maintain healthy runs of fish from any source, wild or hatchery, versus the alder & high temperature monoculture douglas fir stands that have been the replacement species after bad harvest practices along the banks of many N.W.rivers
The Business as usual management practices do not promote the long term future of anadromous fish populations, this should be the main direction of petitioning & pressure on the regulating agencies. Its Broke & needs fixing PDQ.
Poem From a Pueblo Indian.
I have killed the deer.
I have crushed the grasshopper.
And the plants he feeds upon.
I have taken fish from the water.
And birds from the sky.
In my life I have needed death
So that my life can be.
When I die I must give life
To what has nourished me.
The earth receives my body
And gives it to the plants
And to the caterpillars
To the birds
And to the coyotes
Each in its own turn so that
The circle of life is never broken.
Catch & release or catch & eat, follow your conscience.