Sometimes folks I wonder if any many really take time to look at the information provided each year. The modeled seasons this year have Chinook impacts modeled at bay rec W 51 & H 20, fresh water W 158 & H 42, and commercial W 12 & H 7.

Recs utilize C&R to extend opportunity ( time on water ) and commercials are not allowed a targeted Chinook fishery but do keep the few encountered as incidental. Coho are similar but again recs do C&R to extend the season and commercials burn their share in a shortened keep fishery. Also depending on how the fish are moving commercials ( and recs at times ) can have a god awful mortality if they get the fish in transition from salt to fresh. It is a rather short window of time but can be lethal to the fish and nets will get a bunch all at once. Recs might get a few as they swim by but they just do not encounter them the same way or numbers. ( hooks are not as effective as nets )

Take this year if Recs had a keep fishery on wild Coho we would have about a 10 day season, loose a rather large portion of the jack fishery, and likely all of Nov and Dec. The fresh water fishery above S. Monte 107 bridge eats a 5 1/2 times wild Coho impacts than the rest of the rec fisheries COMBINED.

As to the clipped Chinook these are part of the local communities long standing effort to rebuild and maintain the East Fork Satsop wild population that was nearly wiped out prior to the 80's. As one who was involved with the effort I have little sympathy for those that just approach salmon with I want to kill a fish at all cost mentality. That is how we got to this screwed up mess of management allowing marine fisheries to drive stocks to barely make or not make escapement. They do enough damage and we do not need to make it worse with the terminal fisheries with the same uncaring greed that drives marine fisheries.