No Jerry,

I'm talking about a total wild chinook moratorium. Anything else doesn't make much sense for protecting wild puget sound chinook as their is very little take of wild chinooks in freshwater (at least inthe puget sound rivers by anglers--poachers is a whole different ball of wax). Allowing the folks out at La push or Neah bay to kill endangered stilliguamish chinooks doesn't make any sense if you want no harvest on those fish (which is why they close the river in the first place).

I agree that the hatchery chinook marking rate is terrible, and not improving very quickly due to the politics of fish. That doesn't stop one from allowing only marked fish to be killed and this would certainly force the issue on getting all hatchery chinook marked.

Also, allowing any wild blackmouth to be killed doesn't really help the endangered puget sound fish. Most if not all local blackmouth come from local rivers and a fraction of these are wild.

Although I didn't fish it, from most reports the hatchery fish only chinook fishery at seiku was workable (though certainly not perfect). I would propose that chinooks be opened everywhere in the sound under similar rules.

This would allow more fishing opportunity for chinooks while protecting the wild fish a lot more than the current regulation scheme.

I think if we as sportfishers can take the stance where we do everything possible to minimize our impacts on threatened or declining wild fish populations, then we can take the moral high road against tribal and commericial fishers exploitation of these threatened runs.

Otherwise, maybe we are just hypocrites fighting for a bigger piece of the fish pie.