Originally Posted By: Carcassman
Each and every Chinook that is killed before maturity is a fish the is unavailable to the whales. Because the numbers are way down (Chinook) even closures may not now be enough. I mentioned earlier that in the 80s Nooksack and Samish had Chinook returns to the bay of 80-100K+ and now the whole damn Sound has how many?

We have gotten ourselves, of our own free will, down to the bottom of the Grand Canyon with a legal requirement to get out now.


Let us not forget that hatchery production has been reduced significantly since the '80s and seal population is up exponentially since then while actual harvest by WA fishers is way down and that reduced number includes adult fish taken in areas generally past the primary SRKW feeding grounds. Point being the "we" is all of us - not just recreational fishers.
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