Originally Posted By: fishNphysician
Looks like it will be the typical type of season... 2 fish bag, only one chinook, release wild coho.... only they will start it on June 1 until the quota is gone. It should be interesting to see how long it lasts.


Have to retract part of that... sorry. The clarification I got this afternoon is as follows:

The June portion is chinook only, one fish bag, release ALL coho.... until June 28 or the 8200 chinook guideline has been harvested whichever comes first.

Then from June 29 forward, 2 fish bag, one chinook, release WILD coho.... until the remainder of the chinook guideline is met or the hatchery coho quota of 20K is caught.

For comparison, the coho quota last year was nearly six times bigger. The actual catch was about 102K coho, with nearly 66K of that coming out of Westport alone.

Anyone care to take a guess how long 20K will last for the ENTIRE Washington coast?
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