LL,

As a many decades-long steelhead fly fisherman, I do care about steelhead, especially those wild ESA listed ones that are Snake River and Idaho bound. I think one flaw in what I make of your position is that you assume if the commercial fleet fishes selectively, they will no longer gillnet. There is zero evidence of any such plan. Anyway, the selective gear being tested isn't very efficient or selective, except relative to gillnets. This is largely why I think it is beyond time to eliminate the obsolete LCR gillnet fishery and replace it with state-of-the-science traps at Bonneville fish ladders. Such facilities have 98 to 99% survival rate, and would truly be selective. All this make-believe selective fishing research crap on the LCR is like putting a bandaid on an aortic hemorrhage.