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You'd think with the surplus over the past couple years, the quota would be adjusted accordingly. Right? If they knew how many fish are out there, we wouldn't have 30,000 surplus fish on the satsop


Goodness the last years Satsop hatchery numbers were all about damn near 70% of the coho run coming in before Recs tribe NT comm even got after them. The Commercials and tribe pulled early and stopped netting chum because the chum fishery minus coho is not a viable fishery economically.

And again it does not matter what a hatchery return is as for seasons. In mixed stock fisheries only and I mean only the wild escapement matters. Hatchery fish are a bonus in the Chehalis Basin but we are mixed stock wild fish runsize down you manage to that number hatchery fish are not that important as to escapement and seasons.
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