Originally Posted By: Eric
A few things I want to mention have already been covered in this thread. Some not mentioned include resuming at least 1 wild coho retention in the tribs if numbers warrant it. If it means a reduction in the harbor....so be it. The upriver guys have been getting the shaft the last few years.


Folks are gonna have to to come up with some creative ways to get more wild coho into the chronically under-escaped tribs, namely Satsop and Wynoochee.

Certainly for chinook, managers have historically favored the mixed stock fisheries targeting fish lower in the basin.... the bay and the mainstem Chehalis. Very little trib harvest has occurred in recent times.

That's not as much the case with coho. Harvest opportunities in the tribs are generally the rule, not the exception, especially when there are plentiful hatchery fish present.

Where those hatchery fish are absent, the opportunity to put a coho in the box may be limited... as was the case in 2008 for wild coho in the Wynoochee which has repeatedly had trouble meeting escapement.
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