You all have missed the point. Selective harvest must take place in order to restore wild sticks while maintaining harvest; AND hatchery stocks will have to be harvested or face serious cutbacks in production or hatchery closures. What do you think will be said when 50,00 or more surplus coho hit the Cowlitz hatchery this year?
As a guy who has seen how effective gillnets are at taking salmon non-selectively, I was encouraged at how benign this small sein seemed to be at releasing the wild salmon. But you guys can turn even an informative report into something negative. It was just an observation. Get a life.
Sooner or later you'll have to learn the truth...if you want it to be later, well, that's up to you.
If the fishery allows for 5000 dead wild fish...they'll die no matter what. You can harvest more hatchery fish...at the hands of the commercial netters, or seiners, or fish wheels, or whatever...but the same 5000 wild fish will die.
That is not "recovery", nor is it anything like recovery.
The folks pushing this at the CCA really need to learn how the fisheries and seasons work before they go too far...but I fear it's already too late.
Not only have they already gone too far, they've shown the same inability as you to take even the slightest bit of time or energy to learn how the fisheries work.
Get a life? That's the same type of brainless response that we always get from the CCA membership, if not their leadership...you can't cover up massive ignorance with one liner rejoinders, though I suspect you'll continue to try.
The same amount of wild fish will die...there will be less hatchery fish available for sportfishermen...and the resulting change in numbers of hatchery fish on the spawning grounds will be negligible...yet, when told from on high (Woodland) that this is the way to go, you all eat it up, hook, line, and sinker.
Fish on...
Todd
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