like i said before Area 11 was closed to chinook fishing July 14 because of sublegal chinook caught. Only 24% of the harvest quota was caught. I think Area 10 will close real soon because of sublegal chinook caught. Only about 17% of the Area 10 chinook harvest quota has been caught. These closures are getting very disturbing from a rec standpoint.
There are no sublegal or wild encounter quotas in the Ocean and Straights of Juan de Fuca areas. Only harvest quotas in those areas. The Puget Sound anglers are the ones suffering the burden of these sublegal and and wild encounter quotas. Wild unclipped chinook can also be kept on the coast (in a mixed stock fishery) which is difficult to understand when the river systems on the coast (Grays Harbor for example) are closed to chinook retention (hatchery or wild). WDFW needs to make adjustments in the chinook harvest if the tribes will let them.