Originally Posted by
stonefish
I’m not sure a complete closure will help anything, at least in regards to sportsfishing.
There are streams up here that have been closed to steelhead fishing now approaching 30 years and the fish numbers aren’t bouncing back. One of them is one of my home rivers, which I doubt I’ll ever get to fish again for steelhead in my lifetime.
There are a lot of issues regarding this and it has been a long time coming.
It’s super easy to close things and a hell of a lot harder to ever get them back open again.
I’m a Washington lifer and caught my first steelhead 55+ years ago, so that is the prospective I’m coming from on this.
SF
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