Question: Why can’t they target Chinook? There are a few available and we are out of the 3/5 box?

Yes we are out of the 3/5 box on Chinook but only have 550 wild impacts available and modeled impacts to a similar season to last year is 346 with C&R. It is the wild returns that govern everything so if we did a kill fishery on Chinook we would eat up 550 impacts so fast and could fish ourselves to limiting Coho more than it will be. Doubt if we would make escapement also.

I posted up the numbers on the marine intercept fisheries and that is where our Chinook go.