Doc:

I agree..........but trying to get the total "wild count" on anything ........ just doesn't happen.

WDFW......doesn't want to really know the cowboy...wild count.....cause if they did, the process for doing the "wild vs. hatchery" would have to change. Bet the cowboys get a fishery before 10/16......makes it easy to shut us off up river.....10/15.

Bet also....no selected fishery.....just net'um....kill'um....move them fish out to market.

Hope someone brings up the mitigation monies, 2.4 million, on the Wynoochee ...... sounds like the "only plan" would be a direct benefit to winter run steelhead.....and no plan for Wild Coho. Person I talked to from Tacoma City Light, fish Biologist.....said "doesn't matter how many Wild Coho are trucked up over the dam, because of the limited spawning area, only about the same amount of smolt are checked down river". So unless "something is done differently".....there is no way the Wynoochee will ever make escapement.



Edited by DrifterWA (03/04/09 11:20 AM)
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