I have a question I'm sure that someone on this board knows the answer to.

Q: Why does area 8-1 & 8-2 close to blackmouth fishing during the prime winter months every year? Is it to protect smolt hooking mortality? Protection of early Puget Sound Spring Chinook?, and why just a one fish limit instead of two on a fish (blackmouth) that is of hatchery origin?

Any help would be appreciated!
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"It makes no sense to regulate salmon habitat on land while allowing thousands of yards of gill nets to be stretched across salmon habitat in the water"

John Carlson, Gubernatorial Contender, Sept. 2000 speech at the Ballard Locks