"Continuing tough times for wild Puget Sound chinook salmon — and a proposed budget from the Legislature that would cut money to develop and monitor selective fishing for hatchery fish — could mean less selective fishing for hatchery salmon in Puget Sound this year, said Pat Pattillo, Fish and Wildlife salmon policy coordinator.

Puget Sound anglers fishing in Area 13 — South Puget Sound — fished for hatchery chinook all summer in 2007.

Selective fisheries can happen if wild fish — which must be released unharmed — don't show a spike in deaths after release, Pattillo said."


Sounds like the big push for selective fishing is gonna turn around and bite sportfishers in the rear with less opportunity to fish.