Meeting Monday night at the Chateau Westport.

The available chinook harvest for sports will not be maximally utilized if we go with a standard salmon opener in July. The dismal coho numbers will be the limiting stock in the ocean sportfishery... when they are gone, it's over. No way in hell the season will last thru Labor Day like the charterboats typically like to see to maximize their summer season.

When the coho are caught, it's over... no matter how much of the chinook guideline is left unharvested. And knowing how things have worked in the past, the unharvested sport chinook could well be re-allocated to the commercial trollers mid-season.

One option on the table is a special early chinook-only sport opener like we saw back in 2002. The season opened around the Memorial weekend with a 2-king daily bag and went for several weeks before the ususal mid-summer salmon opener allowing coho retention.

If this is something you would like to see happen, show up Monday night and make your voice heard!
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"Let every angler who loves to fish think what it would mean to him to find the fish were gone." (Zane Grey)

"If you don't kill them, they will spawn." (Carcassman)


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