" It's true though that our blackmouth fisheries are kind of a joke now. A lot of that has to do with the fact that yearling chinook are not being raised at the same level as before. "

So true of the blackmouth fishery, which are the "yearling chinook"
mentioned above. In Marine Area 10, the winter Chinook (yearling" fishery guidelines are 4,953 total encounters, 953 unmarked encounters, and 4,181 sublegal encounters.

In the last several years, yearling (resident blackmouth) released make up about 3% of the total hatchery fish released, and declining. Not very solid support for this winter blackmouth fishery.

In the 1980's, Puget Sound hatcheries released about 56 million chinook per year. Recent releases are about half of that, with 28 million PS chinook released in 2021. Again, about 3-5% are yearling fish. (And of sub-yearling chinook that migrate north, we've seen the decimating impact of BC and Alaska fisheries.)

Pugent Sound Anglers send out a plea today to support all hatchery production by emailing that thought to NOAA at
hatcheries.public.comment@noaa.gov

Responses are needed by end of business day Monday, March 11.

This impacts our sportfishery, and also benefits the orca situation, so its a win/win.
Just do it.