Reduced steelhead limit in Michigan not based on science

Don was grumpy.
He’d booked a half-day guided fishing trip on the Manistee or Muskegon rivers, I don’t recall which, and he and his wife had taken a day off work to fish and celebrate an anniversary.
They would float the stream, learn some tactics new to the long-time bass fisherman, and maybe bring home some prime eating in steelhead fillets. As Don loaded their gear into the guide’s drift boat, he snapped to attention when told the day’s fishing would be catch-and-release.