Kari,

Thank you for your post. I will check with the Tribes regarding what kind of fishery is going on. It's weird to say they're fishing sockeye when the sockeye won't begin arriving for another five weeks. And while chinook impacts may have been accounted for at NOF, as you know, NOF ignores steelhead, and the stated steelhead impacts in this thread, if correct, are high for a population that returned at a level less than its escapment goal.

FYI, the sockeye return to the Baker River, where Puget Sound Energy (PSE) has two hydropower dams, not to be confused with Seattle City Light's (SCL) three dams on the upper Skagit River. The Tribes and agencies have worked with PSE, not SCL, to restore the Baker sockeye run.

Sincerely,

Salmo g.