Just noted this little ditty above

“ The Hoh River, a stream a little over 50 miles long, is divided into eight different zones, each with its own seasons, bag limits and gear restrictions.

In addition, it’s illegal to keep a hatchery salmon, as identified by a clipped adipose fin, in the Hoh River throughout the summer months.

On other waters, we are only allowed to keep salmon with a clipped adipose fin.“

The document has been produced to confuse and to question a fisher folk’s sense of following needed rules, so the anglers fishing there gradually quit and give up , while showing that the administrators are supposedly covering all conservational needs, but mostly CYA as co - managers of the resources.

It’s by design, and allows the government to hire more non essential agency administrators to write more crap regulations into an already strangling regulatory document