Originally Posted By: AuntyM
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I feel that the "Millions of fish that should be returning to our rivers and streams are being harvested in the ocean. We are allowing Alaskas commercial fleet to harvest the majority of out salmon" is totally misleading.


No, it's not at ALL misleading.

Yes it is, they didn't catch a million Kings
They expected to catch 4.7 million coho, they didn't they are missing 1.8 million Coho
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"Millions of fish that should be returning to our rivers and streams are being harvested in the ocean.


True.
This may be true, but should read Millions of pinks and chums
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We are allowing Alaskas commercial fleet to harvest the majority of out salmon"


True again.
As I pointed out, If they are catching the majority of our salmon, the fish they are catching are Pinks or Chums

When the statement is made that "we" let ALASKA's fleet harvest our fish, it's only part of the equation. We (the US) have no control over BC fisheries, which also harvests in the ocean, but AK fisheries harvests their fish where they know they will encounter BC, WA and OR bound salmon, rather than harvest closer to their home rivers, where the bulk of the salmon would be their own. NOAA F CAN and SHOULD help force changes to harvest practices. That's the "WE" that was referred to.

Then include salmon "bycatch" numbers, like what is in the following article, and the "impact" of commercial fisheries is all the more depressing.

http://www.seafoodsource.com/NST-3-50000...lock-Catch.aspx




once again, the statement is false.
They only caught 499,000 Kings plus a bycatch of 120,000 in the Pollock fleet. Thats not Millions

Then they caught 2.9 million coho

Ok thats millions, but in reality 90% of those coho actualy would return to alaska's streams or rivers.

Ok so they caught 160,000,000 pinks ugh who cares?

Then they caught a millions of chum. Who cares

The reality is that the numbers of Kings and Coho in general are low. They expected to catch another 1,800,000 Coho.

Picking a fight with Alaskas commercial fleet is a mistake.

As is countiuning the thread.


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