Its all about impacts to ESA listed fish. We are allowed to catch a certain amount of ESA listed fish over an entire year. They have to do the best allow fisheries and still stay withing their allowable impacts. I can not speak to if hood canal blackmouth openings take a large number of listed fish, but I can say that we are paying for those blackmouth with our licence money so we want to have opportunity to catch them. I do know that hood canal is the area that they are most concerned about chinook populations and that is a large part of why very few summer chinook fisheries alowed North of area 11.
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Mike Gilchrist