Well said, Harvey. Overfishing does need to be addressed worldwide (as some of the commenters mention), but a conscientious company like Fishawk does a lot for a town like Brookings and its rivers: education, advocacy, access, employment, and clean-up to name a few. Studies at Humboldt State University and other stream research centers that monitor forests throughout the Pacific Northwest link healthy, diverse forests to cool water and sustainable populations of salmon and steelhead. In Sonoma County, many of our former fishing creeks are decimated, the leading causes being legacy effects from clearcut forests post 1906 earthquake, water availability, and probably (though less studied for our watersheds) impacts to oceans. The Chetco and Smith are a few rivers that aren't turbid and overheated yet--when you compare them with Redwood Creek and some of its tributaries, in which logging practices were mismanaged, you can feel proud of what you still have. It's worth protecting.