Plunker-
Sorry - don't have those details at my fingertips. Since I'm one of those unfortunates that suffer greatly from sea-sickness I don't play close attention to those fisheries.

I had just posted some general information on hooking mortalities so that folks would have a general sense of the various factors than influence the mortality.

One fator in the issue like the "trading of allocations" such as occurred at Westport is what the value of the fishery is. Clearly in recreational fisheries the ultimate value is the number of angler days the fishery supports. As long as the fishing is good enough to keep anglers on the water the longer the season the more valuable it is to local economies. Just as clearly if one is a hardcore angler interested in catch large chinook then trading chinook for coho makes little sense while for the charter fleet it may make great sense.

As always fishing issues are hugely complex and I can only echo the previous suggestions that if folks have questions, concerns or wish to lobby for particular fisheries they or their representatives need to become involved in the salmon season setting process - North of Falcon. While this is a ways off (spring) it would not hurt those interested in these issues to begin working on collecting background data and concerns.

Tight lines
S malma