Figures below taken from WDFW published records for the years 2014-2018:

Final Yearly Totals For Surplus Chinook Beyond Escapement---George Adams Hatchery---Skokomish River---Hood Canal

The three seasons since non-Tribal recreational fishing was closed:

11/01/2018................24,429
11/02/2017................37,812
11/03/2016................25,136

The final two seasons prior to the closure when recreational fishing was allowed:

11/05/2015.................6,697
10/30/2014.................4,792

Take what you will from these stats.

Off the top, it appears that in the two seasons prior to the river's closure, rec bank fishermen may have landed and retained a considerable number of legal hatchery fish before they reached the holding pond.


More significantly, note how the number of "surplus" fish--those typically sent to food banks or used to produce organic fertilizer--spiked after the closure.
Finally, its obvious that both harvest opportunity and possible resource waste may now be the norm, rather than the exception.


Could the Tribe be encouraged to work together with WDFW through positive co-management to turn this around? That possibility rests entirely in the hands of WDFW Management. There's your trouble...