It will be interesting to see how the new Director talks at the next Commission meeting.
Last year the below I-5 fishery indicated lots of jacks in the brief season. IMHO indicating the middle of the run. Yet, the I-5 to Bonnie was allowed to continue eating up the impacts. Steelhead season was delayed due to no headroom.

The jack counts the last couple of years can be partialy atributed to the change in hatchery feed IMHO. The dry feed is hotter than the former moist pellets. Thus we are seeing more and more jacks. Basicly throwing the projected numbers of paper fish off. My guess, at least doubling the projections for the two main year classes over observed returns.

This last year there was no long term agreement because the two States could not agree. I've asked for years at these meetings for a conservational approach in the season setting.

Thanks to the members of our WDFW Commission.
We basicly squeaked under the ESA guideline given thier' direction to Staff.

It would be nice to see how many chinook were caught as bycatch in the hake/pollock trawls. This would indicate the commercial take, so far, along our coast. Nobody knows where they go is what I hear from Staff. Discarded overboard or given to local food banks as per PFMC but not sampled for CWT or DNA data?

It's time for 1800's mindset at DFW to go.
Time to reflect a population change, and perhaps the land use limitations should be reflected in the most harmful, least sustainable methods of commercial harvest.