The WDFW-managed fisheries CANNOT constrain their take on these Satsop fish any further than we already have. We harvest next to NONE of them... hatchery or wild!

AK and BC take the lions share of Satsop kings... indiscriminately so, with disproportionate exploitation of older larger fish simply by virtue of where they take the fish.

QIN are the other major harvester.... indiscriminately so, but at least they place no disproportionate pressure on age classes like the northern intercept fisheries.

Look all I'm looking for at NOF is a fair shake for recs to reap some minuscule benefit, however small, from the hatchery kings produced by OUR tax dollars.

That it produces conservation benefits for Chehalis Basin wild chinook and wild coho in a year when we will have severe fishery constraints on those stocks makes it even more important that we just gitter'dun.

Who's in?
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"Let every angler who loves to fish think what it would mean to him to find the fish were gone." (Zane Grey)

"If you don't kill them, they will spawn." (Carcassman)


The Keen Eye MD
Long Live the Kings!