This sounds like a good idea, but you would have to stop indiscriminate commercial fishing for several years, to see what kind of returns will make it to the rivers. Also certain fish, like chum, change colors well before they hit the river mouths. So this wouldn't work. This might help regulate native american net fisheries. What I don't like is it might introduce a private industry net season for steelhead. Also there would be all kinds of arguments about how much fish could be caught, etc., etc.
It would go back to the issue of escapement models, and accurate surveying.--mike


[This message has been edited by KORE (edited 03-14-99).]