Originally Posted By: AuntyM
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I really don't believe that they are counting on any Washington,Oregon fish to meet their projections.


Not specifically, no, but they do get them. Have you ever seen charts that show WHERE salmon migrate?

What AK is counting on is grabbing huge numbers of BC bound fish, and in return, BC targets WA and OR bound fish.

Pretty well known FACT and that's why we have a salmon treaty with Canada.


Aunty,

First of all I believe that "212 million fish were harvested" is a typo should have read 212 million pounds were harvested

There is no way that 160 million pinks were harvested. Fuel prices are through the roof. Pinks are historically worth pennies.

That being said, the bycatch number in the pollock fishey have shot through the roof. I think it was like 150,000 king salmon. But then Alaska itself was missing 289,000 kings. So I am not sure they were ours.


I think we all, And I mean anyone that cares about Salmon or Steelhead needs to be careful about blaming one user group or another.

There are so many problems with fisheries that picking a starting point is hard.

Myself I believe that if there is no HABITAT there will be no SALMON

I believe that Habitat = SALMON

Anyway yes I am a member. I have fished for a living for 15 years of my adult life. I have seen first had the devistation that the High Seas Drift Gillnets caused in the Albacore fishery.

We in the albacore fishery had get this 100% hard to imagine but yes 100% net maked ablacore.

Thank God, that in the early 90 the fishery was eliminated.

Around the same time I am sure many will recall they "High Seas Gillnetter" were netting WA's Salmon, in there so called squid fishery.
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